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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 · A biography of Sonia Orwell, the model for Julia in 1984 and the executor of Orwell's legacy. Learn about her life, loves, work and controversies in the inter-war literary scene.
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...
- reprint
- Hilary Spurling
- Penguin UK, 2016
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.
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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.
