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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. Giving up her dream of academia, she set up her own typing agency and then began an MA in ...
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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22. Juni 2019 · Fifteen years before the publication of George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four his wife Eileen had already written and published a poem about 1984. In an extract from her biography, Eileen: The Making of George Orwell , author Sylvia Topp describes the poem and the state of the world in which it was published in 1934.
Virtually everyone who knew Eileen O’Shaughnessy/Blair and who has been quoted in an Orwell biography or similar manages to get in some reference to her being Irish. Charles Orr, say, a member of the Independent Labour Party who knew Eileen in Barcelona, remembered her as having “a round Irish face”. Or her friend, Lydia Jackson, who ...
11. Aug. 2023 · An existential crisis, precipitated by a perimenopausal meltdown during a soulless shopping expedition in her local mall, sent the Miles Franklin Literary Award-winning author seeking refuge in a nearby second-hand bookshop.
