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Eileen Maud Blair (née O'Shaughnessy, 25 September 1905 – 29 March 1945) was the first wife of George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair). During World War II , she worked for the Censorship Department of the Ministry of Information in London and the Ministry of Food.
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Eileen Maud Blair, geborene O’Shaughnessy (* 25. September 1905 in South Shields, County Durham; † 29. März 1945 in Newcastle upon Tyne) war die erste Frau von George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) und begleitete ihn insbesondere im Spanischen Bürgerkrieg.
4. März 2020 · Eileen O’Shaughnessy was 30 when she married Orwell in 1936, and 39 when she died. Dark-haired, blue-eyed, with a cat-shaped face and pale Irish skin, she read English at Oxford and was “bitterly disappointed” to not get a First.
1905 – 1945. Profile written by Veronica Lowe (Modern History, 1969), President of the St Hugh’s Alumni Association. Eileen O’Shaughnessy is better known to posterity as the first wife of the novelist George Orwell (Eric Blair) though she had intimated to friends that she had her own literary ambitions.
Eileen O’Shaughnessy married Orwell in 1936 and became Eileen Blair (George Orwell’s real name was, rather prosaically, Eric Blair). But she was virtually missing from Orwell’s own, often ...
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11. Aug. 2023 · Funder explores the life and letters of Eileen Blair, who was Orwell's wife and a writer in her own right. She reveals how history has erased Eileen's role and influence in Orwell's work and life.
10. Nov. 2023 · Funder's demolition of the patriarchal structure that keeps many of us trapped in this place is something to behold, but her main quest in this book is to bring to light Eileen O'Shaughnessy: a brilliant writer erased by history, criticism and biography, and she wants to reveal her quite incredible contribution to the work Orwell produces.
