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Eileen : the making of George Orwell / Sylvia Topp.
Van Pelt Library PR6029.R8 Z84 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Topp, Sylvia, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Blair, Eileen, 1905-1945.
- Blair, Eileen.
- Orwell, George, 1903-1950.
- Orwell, George.
- Orwell, George, 1903-1950--Marriage.
- Authors' spouses--Great Britain--Biography.
- Authors' spouses.
- Marriage.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 475 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Unbound, 2020.
- Summary:
- This is the never-before-told story of George Orwell's first wife, Eileen, a woman who shaped, supported, and even saved the life of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. A Complicated Ancestry
- 2. Head Girl at High School
- 3. Honours at Oxford
- 4. Between Oxford and Orwell
- 5. A Whirlwind Courtship
- 6. Orwell in Love
- 7. Six Happy Months of Marriage
- 8. Escape from Catalonia
- 9. From Overwork to Near Tragedy
- 10. Abandoned Again
- 11. Coming Up for Air in Morocco
- 12. War Ends the Wallington Experiment
- 13. The Worst Years of Her Life
- 14. Coming into Her Own at Last
- 15. But Smooth Sailing Was Never an Option
- 16. Nearly a Happy Ending.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781783527083
- 1783527080
- OCLC:
- 1149362708
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