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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 .
Preceded by. Animal Farm. Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime.
- George Orwell
- 1949
22. Apr. 2004 · Michael Shelden. The merry widow. Three months before his death, George Orwell married a pretty young woman, 15 years his junior, whose only real assets were her beauty and a network of influential friends in literary and artistic circles.
7. Nov. 2023 · Until her death in 1980, the zealous gatekeeper of Orwell's legacy was his widow Sonia, who thwarted numerous would-be biographers. Most famously, she denied David Bowie permission to write a...
9. Juli 2003 · Biographers of George Orwell have since accused his widow of being an opportunist, a sexual adventuress, and a harridan. They have largely cast the sickbed nuptials as a marriage of convenience...
George Orwell’s many women | D.J. Taylor | The Critic Magazine. Brief encounters and romps in the park. George Orwell pursued women with enthusiasm and varying degrees of success. Features. March 2020. By. D.J. Taylor.
6. Juli 2003 · Recently widowed, Orwell pined for female companionship; he was immediately taken with Sonia’s vivacity and tough-minded forthrightness. In her, Spurling argues, Orwell found the inspiration...
