Levy, Louis, 244, 245
Lewis, C.S., 242, 483
Lewis, D.B. Wyndham, 17, 19
Lewis, John, 297
Lewis, Wyndham, 16, 19, 51
Liars’ School, 115
libel and defamation, 10, 15, 25, 41, 42, 47, 47, 57, 57, 86–7, 89, 100, 148, 168, 268, 282, 329, 357, 365, 375, 457, 492
Liberation – Russian Style, 355, 356
Libertés, 244, 245, 301
Liddell Hart, Basil, 517;L: 203; 203, 204
Life on the Mississippi, 19
‘Lili Marlene’, 309, 310
Limouzin, Charles, 111
Limouzin, George, 111
Limouzin, Ida Mabel: see Blair, Ida
Limouzin, Nellie, 59, 66, 67, 74, 111
Linklater, Eric, 391, 392
Lion and the Unicorn, The, 115, 183, 183, 189, 232, 345
Listener, The, L: 108; L: to Orwell, 109; 107, 108, 185, 339
literary executorship, 317, 388, 456, 465, 486
Little Clay Cart, 195
Little Dorrit, 467, 468
Little Red Riding Hood, 45, 281, 325, 326
Little Reviews Anthology, 227, 228
Local Defence Volunteers, 180, 181; and see Home Guard
Lochgilphead, 485
London County Council, 22, 78
‘London Letters’, 206, 223, 391
London Mercury, 19, 104, 165, 491
L[ondon], M[idland &] S[cottish] Railway, 313, 314
London School of Economics, 305, 365
Longden, Robert P., 305, 306, 432
long poem, 16
Looe, 6, 7
‘Looking Back on the Spanish War’, 224
‘Look into the Future, A’, 472
Lord Jim, 266, 446
Lord’s Cricket Ground, 181
Lost Orwell, The, xiii, xvi, 18, 38, 65, 235, 268, 346
Loved One, The, 413
Lowestoft, 37
Lucas, Scott, ix
Lucknow, 102
Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich, 517; 346, 347, 454
Lyttelton, George, 304, 306
Macdonald, Dwight,517; L: 212, 223, 283, 329, 334, 341, 353, 394, 402; 224, 284, 330, 333, 336, 342, 353, 403
McEwan, Sally, 517;L: 244, 315, 396; 316
McGill, Donald, 201, 225, 481, 481
McGovern, John, 100, 101
Mcintosh & Otis, 129, 341, 354
McIntyre, Mr, 371, 387, 422
M’Kechnie, Ian, 451, 452
Mackenzie, Compton, 145, 406
Macmurray, John, 200, 403, 404
McNair, John, 517; 69, 70, 70, 71, 72, 74, 75, 83, 84
Madrid, 75, 76–7, 78, 79, 82, 84, 93
Magnet, 169, 175, 304
Mahommed, Mahdjoub, 143, 144, 149
Maidstone, 103, 160
Mailer, Norman, 479
Maison de Madame Tellier, La, 48
Majestic Hotel, Marakesh, 117
Malaya, 195, 288
Malraux, André, 39, 41 44, 246, 274
Mammett, The, 96, 98
Manchester, 57, 58
Manchester Evening News, 221, 237, 242¸ 245, 289, 295
Manchester Guardian, 58, 101, 355, 394, 454, 458, 414
M & B, 390, 391
Mandelstam, Osip?, 401, 401
Marina, Princess, 44, 45
Marlowe, Christopher, 16
Marrakech, 118–9, 120, 121, 124, 128, 129, 140, 142, 143, 147, 148, 149, 151, 154, 157
marriage, 9, 10, 62, 66, 307, 490, 490
Marshall, George, C., 411, 411
Marshall, Jessica, 517; L: 407; xv
Marshall Plan, 410, 411
Martin, David, 284, 285
Martin, Kingsley, 99, 100, 101, 131, 330, 463, 464
Marty, André, 78
Marvell, Andrew, 175
Marx, Karl/Marxism, 31, 43, 75, 83, 95, 98, 134, 297, 365, 404, 464
Marx (poodle), 95, 97, 120, 121, 122, 125, 146, 148
M[arylebone] C[ricket] C[lub], 106, 107
Masaryk, Jan, 395
Mason, George, 249, 252, 255
Maude, aunt, 74
Maugham, Somerset, 269
Maupassant, Guy de, 48
Maurín Hospital, 78, 82, 84
Maxton, James, 84, 85, 89, 100, 138
May, Allan Nunn, 362, 362, 382
‘May Events’, Barcelona, 31, 71, 93
Meade, Frank, 57, 58
Meccano, 421, 425
Memories of Lenin, 354, 356
Mencken, H.L., 19
metric measurements, 431, 447
Mexico, 67, 298, 299, 448
Meyer, Michael, 518; L: 312, 450; 305, 306, 451, 457, 458
Meynell, Godfrey, 63, 63
Michal Madeleine, 10
Middlesmoor, 127, 315
Mikardo, Ian, 463, 465, 470
Milborne St Andrew, x
Miller, Henry, 518; L: 63; 65, 169, 173, 173, 294
Miller, J.E., 267, 268
Million, 267, 268, 268
Milton, Harry, 76, 84, 85
Ministry of Food, 116, 188, 238, 240, 248, 256, 257, 258
Ministry of Information (MOI), 197, 222, 235, 274, 462, 490
Ministry of Transport, 126
Ministry of Truth, 197
Mizpah, 147, 149
Modern English Usage, A Dictionary of, 48, 49
Modern Quarterly, 296, 297
Modern Utopia, A, 345
Modern Youth, 14
Mogador, 256
Moir, Eleanor, 462
Monat, Der, 479, 480, 481
money borrowed, 51, 52, 74, 110, 115, 147, 149, 150, 160, 191
Monflorite, 71, 72
Monte Carlo, 299, 301
Moore, George, 408
Moore, Leonard, 518; L: 14, 22, 41, 43, 56, 139, 167, 169, 170, 171, 172, 182, 206, 224, 228, 230, 233, 235, 240, 241, 269, 274, 331, 332, 339, 358, 360, 368, 395, 406, 424, 435, 452, 479, 481; and see Christy & Moore; L: from Eileen, 107, 243; xiv, 14, 42, 52, 54, 98, 102, 115, 132, 172, 234, 235, 238, 260, 341, 342, 344, 375, 386, 426, 456, 471, 480
Moos, S., L: 127
Morgan, Bryan, 182
Morland, Andrew, 438, 474, 474, 478, 484, 485, 486
Morlock, D.V., 456, 466, 466, 471
Morocco, French, 115–165 et passim
description, 119, 121, 124, 128, 135, 137–8, 141, 142, 143, 147, 151, 157
Morocco, Spanish, 156, 166, 190
Morris, John, 276, 277
Mortimer, Raymond, 518;L: 99; summary of letter, 101; 98–9
Moscow, 80, 85, 246, 264, 265, 266, 285, 291, 292, 331, 355, 418, 458, 459
Mosley, Oswald, 58, 58, 87, 164, 381, 382
Motihari, x
motor boat, 20, 323, 385, 462, 484
motor-cycle, 54, 179, 292, 313, 316, 317, 322
Mounier, Emmanuel, 403, 404
Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour, 451, 467, 468
Muggeridge, Malcolm, 263, 355, 421, 432, 442, 475, 490
Munich, 122, 127, 303–4, 343, 364
Muriel, 123, 152, 157–8, 162, 166; and see goats
Murry, John Middleton, 518; L: 236, 392, 401; 11, 12, 53, 58, 82, 153, 158, 201, 237, 390, 393, 395
Mussolini, Benito, 70, 152, 289, 356
Myanmar: see Burma
My Caves, 393
Myers, L.H., 105, 115, 149, 192, 212, 276, 290
repayment, 289
Myles, Norah, 518; L: from Eileen, 66, 69, 94, 146, 183, 187; xv, 221, 260
Myles, Quartus St Leger, 65, 97, 148, 183, 259
Mynors, Roger, 6, 7, 345
Nagel, Paris, 41, 274, 298
Naini Tal, x
Naked and the Dead, The, 479
Napoleon, 48, 207, 246, 281
narrator, role of, 325, 338, 339, 405
N[ational] C[ouncil for] C[ivil] L[iberties], 409
National Dried Milk, 419, 421
NBC broadcast, 431, 481, 481
Negrín, Dr Juan, 285, 287
Negro, 43, 156, 228, 268, 420
Nel
son (née Fletcher), Margaret, 255, 315
Neumann, Margarete, 460, 462, 463
Neumann, Robert, 229
Newcastle upon Tyne, xiii, 221, 242, 253, 254, 257, 261, 401
New Economic Policy (USSR), 336
New English Weekly, 16, 18, 23, 64, 102, 144
New Grub Street, 408, 439, 467
New Lanark, 404
New Leader, 74, 136, 457, 463, 468
New Party, the, 58, 87
New Republic, 329, 330, 335, 336, 353
New Road, 213, 215
News Chronicle, 89, 92, 93, 110, 137, 178, 275
newsletters for BBC, writing, 195; reading, 208
News Review, 178
New Statesman (and Nation), 19, 20, 81, 84, 90, 98–101, 102, 133, 165, 329, 330, 381
New Testament, 62, 63
New Writing, 68, 139, 140, 213
New York, 37, 39, 43, 206, 275, 284, 289, 339, 390, 395, 431, 439
New Yorker, xii, 327, 329, 412
New York Herald Tribune, 42
New York Times Book Review, 449
Nicholls, Beverley, 48
Nicholls’s goat, 152
Nicholson & Watson, 229, 230, 231
Nidderdale, 315
Niebuhr, Helmut, 463, 464
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 463, 464
Nin, Andrés, 84, 85, 92, 99
Nineteen Eighty-Four, ix, xi, xiv, xvi, 9, 11, 65, 197, 318, 321, 431, 442
abridgement, 453, 471, 472, 481
as 1984, 435, 435, 436
blurb, 376, 427
broadcast, 431, 481, 481
Facsimile edn., 321, 435–6
metric measurements, 431, 447
preliminary thoughts, 9, 217, 226, 232–3, 346
Room 101, 197, 476 (vulgarity of),
serialisation, 480
should write some book, 251
title, 346, 418
2 + 2 = 5, 232
US attempts to cut, 431, 452–3, 456, 459, 481
writing it, 269, 281, 282, 329, 346, 357, 360, 375, 414, 416, 425, 443
Niven, David, 432, 481
NKVD, 31, 356, 458
No Orchids for Miss Blandish, 229
North Africa, 115, 152, 186, 212, 215, 216, 310, 470; and see Morocco
No Such Liberty, 202
‘Notes on (by) the Way’, 61, 62
‘Notes on Nationalism’, 275, 297
‘nothing ever dies’, 473
Nursery Rhymes, 44
Obelisk Press, 173
Obermeyer, Rosalind, xii–xiii, 53
Observer, The, L: to Frederick Tomlinson, 369; 18, 19, 74, 107, 137, 204, 215, 216, 217, 221, 242, 244, 249, 260, 262, 266, 267, 291, 299, 323, 375, 380, 387, 390, 392, 398, 418, 422, 425, 454, 457, 458, 467, 478
Odd Women, The, 399, 408, 467
O’Donovan, Patrick, 422, 423
O[fficers’] T[raining] C[orps], 7, 158, 159
Ogden, C.K., 518; L: 226; 227
Old Wives’ Tale, The, 55
On a Chinese Screen, 269
‘On a Ruined Farm near the HMV Gramophone Factory’, 35
onto/on to, 447, 447 et passim
Operation Plunder, 260
Opium Department: see Indian Civil Service
oranges distributed, 253
orientals, 392
Orlando, Ruggiero, 467, 468
Orlov, Viktor, 31
Orwell, George, L: 74–6; L: from Eileen: 247–56, 258–60, 260–1
attitude to biography, 317
autobiographical notes, xi–xii
blitzed, 211, 221, 236, 405, 422, 423
bronchitis, 66
burial, 432, 490
catapult, skill with, 345
character, ix–x, xii, xiv, xv, 31, 69, 195–6, 405, 433
diagnosis, 107, 146–7, 377
family saga, 174
fishing, 75, 251, 282, 314, 320, 323, 352, 363, 389, 406, 413, 416, 422, 431, 445, 450, 462, 490
funeral, 432, 490
illness, xiii, 66, 98, 135, 142, 143, 144, 146, 168, 169, 243, 299, 357, 381, 382, 387, 388, 393, 394, 396, 399, 402, 416, 433, 438, 445, 449, 449, 466
‘John Freeman’, 221
lack of glamour, 177
making ammunition, 312–3
marriage, 66, 307, 490
new clothes, 462
new will, 274, 466
not Russophobe, 275
over-pessimistic, 173,
passport renewal, 462
re-marriage, 307–8, 367, 478, 484, 487, 489, 490
reviewing, 16, 63, 68, 83, 178, 217, 242, 251, 255, 295, 327, 377, 379, 383, 426; book reviews not indexed
serial writing, 52, 53
shoe purchases/sizes, 329, 330, 333, 334, 336, 341, 353, 367, 369
smell, 5, 60, 85, 86, 118, 121, 267–9, 268, 403, 420
streptomycin, 375, 386, 387, 388, 390, 390, 391, 393, 397, 398, 399, 407, 433, 434, 434–5, 436, 443, 459, 461, 462, 465
superstition, x, 11, 23, 181
time-table, 50
treatment, 103, 110, 306, 368, 370, 371, 375, 377, 378, 379, 380, 381, 382, 384, 393, 398, 400, 408, 431, 433, 434–5, 438, 439, 443–4, 482, 486
‘Trotskyist prejudices’, 271; and see 31
‘two wasted years’, 116
voice, 82, 305
wants child, 177
war correspondent, xv, 215, 221, 243, 305
war-work, 174, 175
wounded, 79, 98, 305
‘Orwell and the Stinkers’, 267–9
O’Shaughnessy, Catherine Mary, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 259
O’Shaughnessy, Eileen: see Blair, Eileen
O’Shaughnessy, Gwen, 519; L: 377, 465; 72, 146, 161, 162, 165, 188, 221, 238, 239, 248, 249, 255, 258, 259, 261, 263, 317, 433
O’Shaughnessy, Laurence (Eric), 519; L: from Eileen, 76; 66, 68, 70, 71, 79, 96, 98, 122, 149, 179, 189
O’Shaughnessy, Laurence (son of above), 98, 146, 148¸162, 247, 251, 252, 253, 255, 256, 258, 259
O’Shaughnessy, Marie, 519; L: from Eileen, 71; 66, 67
Ostermilk, 253, 254, 256, 259, 419, 421
Oughton, Maurice, 53, 54
Our Mutual Friend, 36
Out of the Night, 356
Ovsëenko, Vladimir Antonov, 91, 93
Owen, Robert, 403, 404
Oxford, 65, 70, 75, 97, 251, 271
by–election, 136, 136, 145
pacifism, 94, 190, 192, 207, 395; and see PPU
‘Pacifism and War’, 213
Pakistan, 102, 455
Palestine, 317, 394, 411, 470
pamphlet collection, 288, 289, 404
paper shortage, 175, 225, 229, 230, 240, 256, 281, 283, 340, 344, 382, 394, 403
‘Parental Ode to My Son, A’, 451
Paris, xi, 3, 37, 38, 40, 41, 55, 67, 69, 118, 173, 221, 243, 244, 246, 246, 250, 255, 261, 263, 273, 274, 281, 291, 292, 294, 298, 304, 341, 384, 401, 410, 445, 489; and see Down and Out in Paris and London
Parker, Buck, 75, 76
Parratt, Nancy, 519; L: to Orwell 488; 488
Partisan Review, 200, 201, 202, 206, 223, 335, 400, 439, 450, 457
Partisan Review Award, 476
P.A.S. drug, 434, 434, 436, 439
Passchendaele, 115
Pathé, Odile, 297, 301
Pauker, Ana, 458, 459
pay award, 1945, 245
Payne, Robert, 461–2
Peace News, 159, 201
P[eace] P[ledge] U[nion], 94, 97, 158, 159, 237
Pearson, Hesketh, 448, 449, 450, 452
Péguy, Charles, 404, 413, 414,
Pekin, 215, 477
PEN Conference, 346, 347
Penguin Books, L: 211; 139, 140, 140, 150, 162, 170, 234, 308, 328, 340, 342, 396, 401
Penrose, Roland, 164, 165
People’s Convention, 190, 191, 455
Perpignan, 166
Perriam, Miss, 140, 167
Persia, 369; see Teheran
petrol rationing, 391, 391, 393, 397
Philadelphia In
quirer, 488
Phillips, William, L: 476; 229
phthisis, 107, 108, 110, 146–7
Pickford’s, 299,308, 309, 422, 462
pickle-jar aquarium, 16
Picture Post, 200; 145, 178, 199, 245, 286, 328
picture restoration, 417, 422, 423, 479, 487
‘Pig’: see Eileen Blair,
pig bought/slaughtered, 397, 416, 420, 425, 485
Pigling Bland, 281
Pilate, Pontius, 325, 326
Pioneer, The, 102
Pitter, Ruth, 34, 35
Pivert, Marceau, 83, 85
Place of the Lion, The, 483
Platt-Mills, John, 463, 464
Plowman, Dorothy, 519;L: 191, 289; 115, 149, 156, 221, 290
Plowman, Max, 519; L: 11; 105, 134, 149, 156, 159, 192, 200, 290
Plowman, Piers, 192, 192, 290, 291
Plymouth bombed, 183
Poland/Polish, 122, 246, 267, 272, 292, 303, 304, 355, 382, 445–6, 454
Polish Trial, 264–6, 266
Warsaw Uprising, 330
Polanyi, Michael, 354, 355
Polemic, 33, 284, 294, 296, 301, 305, 319, 323, 329, 330, 332, 334, 341, 353, 354, 400, 456
police, 21, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 91, 93, 109, 117, 153, 173, 190, 198, 199, 301, 312 322
Politics, 224, 284, 328, 330, 331, 333, 334–5, 335, 341, 353, 394, 400, 402, 423, 423
Politics & Letters, 399, 400, 419, 439
‘Politics and the English Language’, 281, 330
‘Politics vs Literature’, 281, 320, 323, 331
Pollitt, Harry, 74, 75, 85, 87
poltergeists, x, 181
Pons, Jean, 55, 55
poodle: see Marx
Popham, Anne, 519; L: 293, 307, 321, 322
Popular Army, 91
popular culture, ix, 176, 223, 225
Popular Front, 88, 151, 153, 176
Porteous, Hugh Gordon, 338, 339
Portrait and the Anti-Semite, 419
Possenti, Umberto, 46
Possev, 272, 423, 480, 480
Possible Worlds, 19
Postman Always Rings Twice, The, 442
potato ration, 385; and see xiv, 176
Potter, Beatrix, 281
Potts, Paul, xiv, 268, 315, 315, 316, 470, 471
POUM, the, 79, 80, 86, 87, 89, 90, 91, 108–9, 137, 162
suppression of, 81, 83, 84, 91–3, 99–100
Powell, Anthony, 519; L: 262, 367, 411, 475; 368, 391
Powell, Lady Violet, 520; 263
Prayer Book: see Book of Common Prayer
praying circle, 159
press, secret, 154, 163, 164
Preston Hall Sanatorium, 32, 102, 103, 107, 110, 134, 146, 300
‘Prevention of Literature, The’, 275, 281, 347
prices: equivalents, xviii, 73, 245
Priest Island, 255
Priestley, J.B., 199, 200, 205, 408
‘Principles of Newspeak’, 435, 436
printing press, secret, 163
prison, 162, 184, 190, 292, 356
Pritchard, Joyce, 222, 255
Pritt, D.N., 190, 191, 275, 463, 464, 470
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