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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.
15. Juni 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.
8. Jan. 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.
10. Dez. 2020 · Review of The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell, by Hilary Spurling. The style of the photograph is perfectly iconic. We seem to be looking over Sonia Brownell’s shoulder towards Lys Lubbock, in the offices of Cyril Conolly’s magazine Horizon.
28. Jan. 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
8. Juni 2003 · Sonia Brownell Orwell was never the sort of woman people could disregard, but her end was certainly bleak enough. Still, she led quite a life, and Spurling, who knew her during its last decade...
1. Jan. 2002 · Beautiful, intelligent, and idealistic, Sonia was the model for Julia, heroine of Orwell's 1984. Her friends and admirers included W.H. Auden, Lucian Freud, and Francis Bacon.
