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1. www.newstatesman.com › culture › 2020The sacrifices of George Orwell’s first wife - New Statesman

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   Mar 4, 2020 · George Orwell’s enigmatic first wife was, it appears, an exact inversion of his second wife. Eileen O’Shaugh-nessy married an unknown writer and then worked herself to death to ensure his fame, while Sonia Brownell married a dying writer in order to ensure her own fame.

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3. www.latimes.com › archives › la-xpm-2003-jul-06-bkOrwell's final muse, without the doublespeak - Los Angeles Times

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   Jul 6, 2003 · Orwell’s death in early 1950 devastated Sonia, a fact confirmed by other Orwell biographers (Shelden aside), though a rendezvous with Merleau-Ponty shortly after still excites nasty conjecture.

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   Jan 28, 2016 · A biography of George Orwell's second wife, Sonia Brownell, who was model for Julia in Nineteen Eighty-Four and faced criticism after his death. The book explores her life, personality, relationships and role in protecting Orwell's legacy.

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   Did George Orwell marry Sonia Brownell?

   • Counterpoint: 194 pp., $24 In mid-October of 1949, a bedridden George Orwell, his health broken at 46 by tuberculosis, married a young editor named Sonia Brownell in his London hospital room. Reaction to the nuptials ranged from the puzzled to the deeply skeptical.

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   Did Sonia marry Orwell?

   • Sonia, however, who married Orwell on his deathbed, adopted his nom de plume and kept it even after she remarried. We know a lot about Sonia and nothing about Eileen. Because the correspondence between herself and Orwell has not survived, Eileen has become what DJ Taylor calls “something of a black hole at the centre of Orwell studies”.

   The sacrifices of George Orwell’s first wife - New Statesman

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   How did Sonia meet George Orwell?

   • It was through Connolly that Sonia met a frail Englishman and respected Horizon contributor: George Orwell. Recently widowed, Orwell pined for female companionship; he was immediately taken with Sonia’s vivacity and tough-minded forthrightness.

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   Did George Orwell use the name Sonia Blair?

   • They point out that, though legally “Mrs. Sonia Blair” (George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair), she used the surname Orwell to cash in on his posthumous fame. Orwell’s last two biographers, Michael Shelden and Jeffrey Meyers, only amplified Sonia’s flaws.

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6. archive.org › details › girlfromfictiond0000spurThe girl from the Fiction Department : a portrait of Sonia Orwell

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   Dec 10, 2020 · Hilary Spurling, a friend and biographer of Sonia Orwell, reveals her life story as a model for Orwell's fiction and a co-editor of his non-fiction. She portrays her as a beautiful, intelligent, idealistic and complex woman who faced challenges and tragedies.

7. www.goodreads.com › author › showSonia Orwell (Editor of My Country Right or Left) - Goodreads

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   Sonia Orwell is the author of My Country Right or Left (4.28 avg rating, 607 ratings, 44 reviews, published 1968), An Age Like This (4.31 avg rating, 388...

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8. www.goodreads.com › book › showThe Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell

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   Jan 1, 2002 · A biography of Sonia Orwell, George Orwell's second wife and the model for Julia in 1984. Learn about her life, work, friends, and challenges as an editor, literary assistant, and widow.

9. www.orwellfoundation.com › the-orwell-foundationGeorge Orwell, Sonia Brownell and the Orwell Archive

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   Feb 18, 2020 · On 13th October 1949, Sonia Brownell and George Orwell were married in University College Hospital, where Orwell was being treated for tuberculosis. Orwell died three months later.