The biography of the wife of George Orwell is to be corrected after children of the 1984 author’s friends complained about inaccuracies. A book that focused on the life of Eileen O’Shaughnessy ...

A biography of the wife of George Orwell is to be corrected after complaints were made by children of the writer's friends. Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life, which tells of the struggles of ...

George Orwell, the inventor of the Ministry of Love and Room 101 in “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” was married for the second time in Room 65 of University College Hospital in London. His sickbed was ...

George Orwell was a “sadistic, misogynistic, homophobic, sometimes violent” man who wrote women out of his story, according to a biographer of his wife. Anna Funder said that Orwell was a ...

Eileen married Orwell in 1936, and nine years later, at 39, she became ill with cancer. Demoralized by illness and by Orwell’s infidelities, nastiness and neglect (according to Funder), she ...

FEW WRITERS have achieved the cult status of George Orwell. He is so much a part of the collective imagination that John Rodden, an Orwell scholar, goes so far as to call him “the most important ...

George Orwell had a traumatic relationship with the sea. In August 1947, while he was writing Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) on ...

WIFEDOM: Mrs. Orwell’s Invisible Life. By Anna Funder. Knopf. 464 pages. $32. Throughout my reading life, I have returned to George Orwell’s work for the pleasure and power of his words and ...

DJ Taylor published Orwell: The Lifein 2003. Now he offers a new biography that draws upon new materials that have surfaced since (Orwell’s letters to women he was infatuated with, for instance).

One Biography Questions Orwell’s Image, and Another Brings His First Wife Into Focus. ... George Orwell and Eileen O’Shaughnessy: Orwell’s worst weaknesses concern his dealings with women.