Evening Standard, 5 January 1946 Which is the most attractive junk shop in London is a matter of taste, or for debate: but I could lead you to some first-rate ones in the dingier areas of Greenwich, in Islington near the Angel, in Holloway, in Paddington, and in the hinterland of the Edgeware-road. Except...
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Le Progrès Civique, 12 January 1929 Any visitor to London must have noticed the large number of beggars one comes across in the streets. These unfortunates, often crippled or blind, can be seen all over the capital. You might say they are part of the scenery. In some areas one can see every three...
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Tribune, 26 October 1945 In last week’s Tribune, there was an interesting letter from Mr. J. Stewart Cook, in which he suggested that the best way of avoiding the danger of a “scientific hierarchy” would be to see to it that every member of the general public was, as far as possible, scientifically educated. At the same time,...
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Uncorrected letter sent by George Orwell (Eric Blair) to his mother Ida from St. Cyprian’s preparatory school in Eastbourne, Sussex. 17 March 1912 My darling Mother, Thank you for your letter, please tell me what couler the giune-pig is. W are coming back on the third of April, and going back to school on...
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New Statesman and Nation, 9 January 1943 One cannot adequately review fifteen pamphlets in a thousand words, and if I have picked out that number it is because between them they make a representative selection of eight out of the nine main trends in current pamphleteering. (The missing trend is pacifism: I don’t happen...
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Adelphi, October 1941 Mr Murry1 said years ago that the works of the best modern writers, Joyce, Eliot and the like, simply demonstrated the impossibility of great art in a time like the present, and since then we have moved onwards into a period in which any sort of joy in writing, any such...
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Uncorrected letter sent by George Orwell (Eric Blair) to his mother Ida from St. Cyprian’s preparatory school in Eastbourne, Sussex. 25 February 1912 My darling Mother, Thank you for that letter you sent me, but I couldent read it somewon tore it up before I red it, so if you had anything you specialy...
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Eileen O’Shaughnessy (25 September 1905 – 29 March 1945) was the first wife of George Orwell. She died in tragic circumstances in the spring of 1945 in Newcastle upon Tyne whilst undergoing surgery, her death being caused by the anesthetic. She is buried in Saint Andrew’s and Jesmond Cemetery, West Jesmond, Newcastle. These pictures...
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Eric Blair (George Orwell) on holiday at Church Stretton, Shropshire in September 1917 Eric Blair (holding rifle) with friends Guinevere and Prosper Buddicom. Jacintha Buddicom in 1918 Jacintha Buddicom was the subject of some of Eric Blair’s early love poems.
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Poetry London, October-November 1942; reprinted in Little Reviews Anthology, edited by Denys Val Baker, 1943. There is very little in Eliot’s later work that makes any deep impression on me. That is a confession of something lacking in myself, but it is not, as it may appear at first sight, a reason for simply...
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