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Sonia Mary Brownell (25 August 1918 – 11 December 1980), better known as Sonia Orwell, was the second wife of writer George Orwell. Sonia is believed to be the model for Julia, the heroine of Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Jun 15, 2003 · IN a life of brilliant passions, Sonia Brownell's 14-week marriage to George Orwell stands out as the lackluster chapter. To the altar the bride trailed a resplendent past.
Jul 6, 2003 · 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...
Jan 8, 2018 · The Girl From The Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell by Hilary Spurling. Sonia Brownell became Sonia Orwell just two or three months before the author’s death and, until she herself died in 1980, was the executor and gatekeeper of the Orwell legacy.
Jan 28, 2016 · Absorbing and provocative, a biography of George Orwell's controversial second wife from the Whitbread Prize-winning author of Matisse the Master and...
Apr 25, 2002 · Spurling describes an accident that happened to Sonia Orwell when she was 17 and living with a family in Switzerland. She offers it as a defining, life-long trauma. A boat in which Sonia was sailing with three other young people overturned in a sudden squall.
Dec 10, 2020 · "Beautiful, intelligent and idealistic, but also, as she grew older, belligerent and intimidating, Sonia was the model for Julia, 'the girl from the Fiction Department', heroine of Orwell's Nineteen Eight-Four. Angus Wilson, Marguerite Duras and Anthony Powell also based fictional characters on her.
