George Orwell: A Life in Letters
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A.J.A. Symons: His Life and Speculations, 380, 406
Albacete, 76, 78
Albatross Library, 170, 171, 172, 173
Alexander Pope, 90
Ali, Ahmed, 213, 215
Allan Wingate, 406
Allenby, Field Marshall, 186
Amato, Mr, 46
America, 64, 129, 174, 205, 206, 228, 229, 284, 288, 330, 332, 350, 352, 380, 386, 393, 394, 403; and see USA
‘American Reverie, An’, 284, 285
Anand, Mulk Raj, 509;L: 207; 207
anarchism, anarchists, 93, 109, 303, 334, 349, 383, 464
Anders, General, 292
Anderson, Evelyn, 248, 255
Anderson, Mrs, 122, 142, 239, 240
Anderson shelter, 120, 122, 125, 142, 240
And Even Now, 48
Andover, 249
Anglo-Catholic, 483
Anglo-Indian(s), xi, 124, 420, 455
Angus, Ian, xiv, 76, 235, 255, 316, 413
Animal Farm, 228
as ‘little squib’, 226
film rights, 331, 340
Orwell’s interpretation, 333, 334, 336
radio adaptation, 334, 336, 337, 338
serialisation, 272
translations, 272, 283, 288, 299, 330, 331, 415
turning point, 334, 336
Animaux Partout!, Les, 281
Anisimov, Ivan, 437
anti-Russian, 265, 285, 458
anti-semitism: see Jews
anti-Stalin, 229, 333
anti-war activities, 131, 132, 138, 153, 394, 464
Ape and Essence, 449
Apponyi, Alexandrine, 490
Arabic, 5, 147, 151, 155
Arab funerals, 128, 129
Arabs, 118, 120, 124, 135, 138, 143, 147, 150, 151, 152, 155, 156, 157, 166
Aragon front, 69, 91
Aragon, Louis, 213, 214, 301
Ardent, HMS, 71
Ardlussa, 250, 255, 314, 315, 316, 389, 452, 478
Ardrishaig, 485
Arquer, Jordi, 509;L: 477; 31
‘Art of Donald McGill, The’, 225, 481
‘As I Please’, 221, 228, 304, 329, 330, 337, 353, 365
‘As One Non–Combatant to Another’, 214
Assault Guards, 106
Astor, David, 509;L: 365, 370, 386, 388, 389, 390, 398, 416, 421, 425, 434, 472, 478, 485; L: from Bruce Dick, 433; xiv, xv, 25, 250, 255, 369, 375, 383, 387, 391, 432, 474, 490
Astor, Lady, 24, 24
Astor, Lord, 24, 242
Astor, Mrs David, L: 397
Atlantic Islands, The, 392
Atlas Mountains, 115, 128, 135, 144, 151, 155, 157
atomic bombs/war, 274, 399, 417, 421, 421
Attlee, Clement, 110, 138, 139, 385
Aubrey, John, 368, 368, 475, 475
Auden, W.H., 105, 339
Aung San, 199
Austerlitz, Battle of, 207
Austin (car), 484
Australian, 204, 204
Austria, 132, 242, 264
Ayer, Alfred Jules, 305, 306, 323, 324
Aylesford Sanatorium, 103, 105, 159, 160
Baillie-Stewart, Norman, 382
Baker, Denys Val, 228
Baker, John, 296, 297, 346, 347
Bakerism, 346
Balabanov, Angelica, 354, 356
Balderston Warren & Co, 360
Bali and Angkor, 62
Ballard, Arthur, 291
ball-point pens, 488; and see Biro, Rollball
Bantock, G.H., L: 276
Barcelona, 77, 79, 90, 93, 152, 156, 162
escape from, 83
May Events/Riots, 81, 83–4, 89, 92, 100, 106, 109, 180
Barnes, Bishop E.W., 25
Barney the Apostate, 24
Barnhill, xi, 18, 250, 255, 281, 282, 290, 298, 312, 316, 348, 365, 366, 375, 378, 384, 396, 402, 426, 434, 437, 451, 462, 487, et passim; and see Jura
description, 314–5, 317, 397
future, 379, 469
Barrès, Philippe, 203
Bashkirtseff, Marie, 452, 452
Basic English, 226, 227
basic petrol, 391, 391
Bates, H.W., 409, 410
Battalia, La, 92
bayonets, 186, 187, 187
Bayou, Pamela de (Mrs Warburg), 358
Bayswater, 33
BBC, 60, 116, 197, 216, 227, 346, 455; and see Indian Service
Radio Three, 196, 326
resignation, 215, 216, 216–7, 226
treated well, 216
‘Beachcomber’, 17
Beddard, Terence, 7
Bedworthy, Barbara, 48
Beerbohm, Max, 48
Before the Bombardment, 408
Beggar My Neighbour, 214
Belgium, 82, 343, 364
Beneš, Edvard, 395
Benjamin, the donkey, xiv
Bennett, Arnold, 55
Beresford, Ruth, 322
Best Poems of 1934, 34
Bevan, Anuerin, xii, 244, 335, 465
Beveridge Report, 210, 388
Bing, Geoffrey, 93
Binns Department Store, 253
Biro, 294, 370, 379, 380, 389, 489
birth control, 24
birth rate, 210, 210
Blackburn, Mrs, 255, 260
Blackburn, Raymond, 251, 253, 255, 257
black magic: x, 23; and see superstition
Blackshirts, 58, 58
Black Spring, 63–5, 65
Blair, Avril, 509;L: to Humphrey Dakin,314; to Michael Kennard, 415; x, xii, 5, 18, 67, 119, 259, 282, 311, 315, 316, 366, 377, 384, 436, 437, 440, 443, 451, 456, 459, 462, 464, 466, 469, 474, 485, 487 et passim
Blair, Eileen (and as ‘Pig’), 509; L: 74;
L: to her husband, 247, 258, 260;
L: to Jack Common, 103;
L: to Mary Common, 142;
L: to Lettice Cooper, 256;
L: to Geoffrey Gorer, 128;
L: to Denys King-Farlow, 110;
L: to Leonard Moore, 107, 243;
L: to her mother, 71;
L: to Norah Myles, 66, 69, 94, 146, 183, 187;
L: to Dr Laurence O’Shaughnessy, 76;
L: from Marjorie Dakin, 125;
adoption of little girl?, 252, 255; and see 10
death, 221, 261, 262
house at Harefield, 248
house in country, 250
hysterectomy, 257
ill-health, 122, 160, 183–4, 185, 188, 189, 192, 248
irony, 146
London a nightmare, 251
operation, 248
tumours, 249
will, 260
xiii, xiv, 70, 76, 116, 160, 256, 307, 345
Blair, Eric see Orwell, George
Blair, Ida, 510;L: 5; x, 68
Blair, Marjorie: see Dakin, Marjorie
Blair, Richard (Orwell’s son), 510; 273, 366, 393 et passim
adoption, 237, 237
horoscope, x, 237, 238, 238
pocket money, 451, 466
relations with father, 449, 464, 475
schooling, 308, 311, 322, 408, 420, 439, 443, 461, 466, 469, 473, 474, 477, 478, 482, 484, 487
Blair, Richard Walmsley, 510;x, xi, xiv, 21, 33, 67, 115, 118, 146, 152, 158, 165, 169, 174
Bland Beginning, 442
Bless ’Em All, 204, 204
Blok, Alexander, 226, 226
Bloy, Leon, 413, 413
Blunden, Edmund, 270, 270, 358, 359
Bob(bie), the horse, 366, 371, 387, 398, 422
Bodleian Library, 251
Bokhari, Zulfaqar Ali, 510; L: 185; 197
Bolsheviks, 80, 105, 236
Booklovers’ Corner, 42, 43, 50, 53, 156, 380
Book of Common Prayer, 62
Book of the Month Club (USA), 281, 309, 309, 317, 431, 453, 456, 459
books ordered, 155
‘Books that Changed the World’, 207
Boothby, Guy, 19
Borkenau, Franz, 83, 98, 354, 454
Born in Exile, 399
‘
Boule de Suif’, 48, 325
Bowker, Gordon, 18, 196
Boyle, Francis, 417, 451, 452
boys’ papers, 175–6, 177, 283, 298, 304, 412
‘Boys’ Weeklies’, 172, 225, 306
Boys will be Boys, 417
Brailsford, Henry Noel, 510;L: 90, 91; 93, 100, 101
Brander, Laurence, 510;L: to L.F. Rushbrook Williams, 208; 326
brandy, 252, 322, 352
Branthwaite, Jock, 83, 85
Brideshead Revisited, 413
Bridgwater by-election, 136
Brighton, 50–1, 52, 437, 462, 469
Bristol, 70, 84, 121, 126, 127, 146, 148, 184, 188
Britain in Pictures, 225, 227, 229, 269, 270, 358, 359, 360
‘Britain’s Silent Revolution’, 199
British Cookery, 294
British Council, 286, 293
British Pamphleteers, 407, 439
British People, The, 358
broadcasting, 23, 34, 45, 108, 122, 185, 195, 207, 207, 214, 289, 294, 326, 336, 339, 347, 368, 431, 481, 481
Indian Service, iii, 145, 198, 208, 210, 227, 326
on literary criticism, 185
Brock, R.W., 197
Brockway, Fenner, 72, 74
bronchiectasis, 107, 110, 305, 307
Brown, Ivor, 511;L: 215, 391; L: to Dr Thomas Jones, 242; 217, 249, 253, 369, 370, 392
Browne, Alec, 57
Browne, Mallory, 295, 295, 296
Browne, Raymond R., ix
Brownell, Sonia, 511;L: 351, 473; L: to Yvonne Davet, 489; 353, 431, 471, 478, 484, 490
proposed marriage to,478, 484, 487
Buddicom, Guinever, 10, 443, 445
Buddicom, Jacintha, 511;L: 443, 444, 473; L: to a friend, 8; 10–11, 431, 443, 445
Buddicom, Prosper, 10, 443, 445
‘Burial of Sir John Moore’, 7
Burma (Myanmar)/Burmese, x, xi, xiii, 3, 9, 10, 34, 39, 55, 63, 68, 102, 131, 135, 141, 198–9, 199, 199, 394, 402, 443, 445, 455
Burmese Days, iii, 14, 15, 16, 16, 18, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 23, 24, 31, 37, 38, 39, 41, 42, 43, 44, 46, 49, 50, 64, 134, 170, 211, 211, 274, 319, 332, 396, 399–400, 400, 435, 484
pirated edition, 170
Burnham, James, 301, 319, 328, 330
Burns, Cecil Delisle, 441
Burns, Oates & Washburne, 231
Buttonshaw, 76, 76
B.V.M., 16, 17
by-elections, 136, 136
Byron, Lord, 214
Café des Deux Magots, Paris, 384, 385
Cain, James, M., 442
Caine, Hall, 33
Cambridge, 5, 20, 62, 63, 289, 305
Camus, Albert, 301, 384
Canada/Canadians, 10, 44, 209, 289, 356, 362
Canadian Government Blue Book, 355, 356
Canonbury Square flat, 18, 238, 239, 241, 250, 252, 255, 376, 419, 462
‘Can Socialists Be Happy?’, 221
Cape’s: see Jonathan Cape
Capri, 467
Carco, Francis, 44
Cargoe, Richard, 460
Caröe, E.A., 7, 8, 8
Carpenter, Edward, 66
Carr, Mrs., 16, 18
Casablanca, 117, 118, 119, 124, 138, 158, 161, 166
Casteret, Norbert, 392
Catalan, 93, 106
catapult, Orwell’s skill with, 345
Cayenne, 11
censorship, 79, 100, 206, 210, 265, 294, 297, 299
Censorship Office (Whitehall), 116, 188, 192
chaining German prisoners, 208, 209
Challaye, Félicien, 101
Chamberlain, Neville, 121, 122, 123, 126, 129, 131, 133, 136, 138, 139, 145, 163, 394
Chapel Ridding, xv, 98
Charles Dickens, 449
Charlot, M., 318, 319, 319
Charoux, Mr., 479, 487
Cheyney, Peter, 441, 442
Children Be Happy, 42
Children of the Ghetto, 452
Children’s Hour, 45, 281, 326, 339
China, 39, 41, 134, 214, 236, 237, 237, 405, 462
Chleuh, 155, 157
Chollerton, A.T., 459
Christen, Mrs, 312, 368, 411; and see Wood, Mrs Miranda
christianity, 11, 18, 199, 242, 403; and see Church of England, Roman Catholic(s)
hymns, 410
Christian Science Monitor, 295, 394
Christmas celebrations/greetings, xiv, 21, 54, 55, 95, 143–4, 148, 152, 184, 287, 370, 375, 378, 384
shopping, 54, 94, 126, 142, 150, 198, 421
Christy & Moore, 274; and see Moore, Leonard
Churchill, Winston, 139, 205, 276
Church of England, ix, 62, 432
Thirty–Nine Articles, 159
Church Times, 20, 24, 47
Ciliga, Anton, 355, 356
Cinderella, 45, 338
circumcision, 337
Civil Guards, 106
Clarke, Roger, 11
class–breaking, 60
Clé, La, 154, 154
Clergyman’s Daughter, A, x, 10, 23, 34, 37, 41, 42, 47, 50, 64, 328
libel cuts, 47, 491
proof readings, 491
‘Clink’, 21, 23
clothes rationing ends, 177, 329–30, 331, 452, 452
Clue to History, The, 200
Clutton-Brock, Alan, 63, 63
Cochin Hospital, Paris, 3
Cohen, Edna, 54
Cole, G.D.H., 463, 464
Collet’s bookshop, 327, 328
Collings, Dennis, 511;L: 12; 18, 20, 34, 35, 61, 141, 288
Collins, Norman, 57, 58, 323
Collins’s, 225, 359
Cologne, 244, 246, 249, 251, 256, 257
Combined Maze, The, 469
Comfort, Alex, 512;L: 200, 213; L: to Orwell, 201; 212, 213, 223, 228
‘comics’, 283; and see boys’ papers, ‘Boys’ Weeklies’
Coming Up for Air, 24, 102, 115, 172, 173, 211, 234, 320, 332, 333, 340, 342, 344, 345, 399, 405, 413, 484
absence of semi-colons, 367, 367
preparations/progress, 129, 132–3, 135, 147, 149, 150, 160, 166
Commentary, 457, 479
Common, Jack, 512;L: 57, 59, 111, 123, 130, 149, 157, 161, 165, 482; 104, 105, 482 L: from Eileen, 103–4;
loan, 482
xiv, 103, 104, 105, 121–2, 128, 482
Common, Mary, L: from Eileen, 142; xiv, 103, 161, 162 et passim
Common, Peter, 142 et passim
‘Common Lodging Houses’, 21
Common Wealth National Committee, 205
C[ommunist] P[arties]/communism/communists, 22, 43, 75, 78, 80
Complete Works of George Orwell, xiii, xvi, xviii, 18, 39, 106, 181, 304, 491, 492
concentration camps, 120, 251, 265, 291, 354–5, 464
looming, 102, 125, 135, 155, 156, 347
‘Confessions of a Dishwasher’, 22
Confidential Agent, The, 460
Connolly, Cyril, 512; L: 7, 102, 144; x, 7, 62, 63, 145, 172, 173, 174, 213, 327, 353, 357, 406, 406, 473, 487
Conrad, Joseph, 266–7, 445–7, 484
conscription, 131, 335, 380
Conservative (Party), 58, 131, 139, 145, 402, 460, 491
Constant Nymph, 33
contemporary scene, writing about, 460–1
Contempt of Freedom, The, 355
Continental Hotel, Marrakech, 118
Continental Hotel, Tangier, 117, 119
contract with Gollancz: see Gollancz
Controversy, 85, 136
Cooper, Lettice, 512;L: from Eileen, 256; 53, 188, 239, 449
copyright problems, 234, 332, 342
Corelli, Marie, 33
Cornwall, 7, 126
Corryvreckan Whirlpool, 363, 385
‘Cost of Letters’, 327
Cotswold Sanatorium: see Cranham Sanatorium
cottage, the: see The Stores and shop
Cottman, Stafford, 512; L: 310; 71, 83, 84, 87, 311
as ‘boy of eighteen’, 86
Country of the Blind,
145, 406
court appearance, 244, 256
Cow & Gate milk, 419
C Programme: see Radio 3
Craighouse, 309, 314, 315, 352
Crainquebille, 325, 414
Cranham Sanatorium, 11, 383, 427, 431, 433, 434, 435, 437, 438, 454, 464, 472, 475, 485
Crankshaw, Edward, 417, 418
Crick (cinema proprietor), 20, 21
Crillon Hotel, 3
Criterion, The, 339
Criterion, the, 97
Critical Essays, ix, 231, 290, 298, 332, 345
croquet, 412
Crosse & Blackwell pickles, 73
Crossman, R.H.S., 380, 380
Crux Ansata, 285, 286
crypto-communists, 455, 457, 463, 464, 470
cuckoo, 309
Curran, Charles, 471, 472
currency equivalents, xviii, 74
C.W. Review, 330
Czapski, Joseph, 246, 292
Czech Silesia, 122
Czechoslovakia/Czechs, 121, 122, 123, 131, 133, 153, 395, 395, 455, 455
Daily Herald, 101
Daily Mail, 110, 487
Daily Worker, 21, 22, 75, 76, 85, 86, 89, 140, 311, 420
Dakin, Dr, 127, 127
Dakin, Henry, 127, 148, 314, 315
Dakin, Humphrey, 512; L: from Avril Blair, 314; 122, 127, 148, 149
Dakin, Jane, 127, 127, 148,
Dakin, Lucy, 127, 148
Dakin, Marjorie, 512;L: 311; L: from Eileen, 120; L: to Eileen, 125; 127, 148, 149
Dali, Salvador, 229, 288, 386
Dante, 475
Dark Side of the Moon, The, 355, 356
Darlington, C.D., 513;L: 346; 346, 347, 454
Darlington station, 247
Darroch, Donald and Kate, 365, 366, 389, 389
Darroch, Neil, 390
Dartford by-election, 136
Dartmoor Prison, 150
Darwin, Charles, 34; see Voyage of the Beagle
Davenport, John, 419, 421
Davet, Yvonne, 513; L: 297, 318; L: from Sonia Orwell, 489; 56, 169, 170, 336
Davey, Charles, 409, 410
Davies, E. Rowan, 513;L: 198
Dawn’s Delay, The, 413
‘Days in London and Paris’, 14
Dearman, Mr, 320, 321
deaths of Orwell’s relatives and friends in his lifetime: Alan Clutton-Brock’s wife, 63; Godfrey Meynell, 63; his father, 115; Bobby Longden, 305, 306; Teddy Lovett, 71; his mother, 196; Anne Popham’s fiancé, 295; Eileen, 261; his sister Marjorie, 312; Victor Serge, 299
Declaration of the Rights of Man, 285, 286
‘Decline of the English Murder’, 281
Deeping, Warwick, 441, 441
de Gaulle, Charles, 203, 204, 225, 232, 417, 422
Denmark, 88
Desai, R.R., 513; L: 210
Desmarais, Ralph, 346
Deutsch, Andre, 231
De Valera, Eamon, 232
Devon, 126, 179
Dial Press, 229, 241, 270, 283
Dick, Dr Bruce, 513; L: to David Astor, 433; xv, 378, 386, 390
Dick, Kay, 513;L: 273;
Dickens, Charles, 12, 36, 169, 172, 224, 449