George Orwell: A Life in Letters
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propaganda, 24, 75, 176, 187, 189, 195, 204, 207, 210, 212, 216, 270, 310, 349, 358, 453, 455, 457–8, 480, 480
prospect of war, 120, 123, 126
Protestantism, 16, 242
pseudonym, choosing, 14, 22, 48, 204, 298, 356, 460, 462
Psmith in the City, 253, 256
Pulleyne, Collett Cresswell, 17, 18, 20
Purple Land, The, 409
Quakenbrück, 302, 303–4
Queen, H.M., 283
Radio 3 (also as C and Third Programme), 196, 326
‘Raffles and Miss Blandish’, 221, 223, 224, 224, 241
Raffles Museum, 35, 61
Ragg, T. Murray, 202
Rahr, Lew, 480
Rahv, Philip, 520; L: 300; 476
Raimbaud (a hunchback), 301
Raimbault, René–Noël, 520; 38, 44, 45, 54; 38, 43, 54, 55
death of daughter, 54
rape, 10
rationing, 115, 176, 177, 314, 323, 325, 382, 385, 399, 452, 452, 466
‘Ravensden’, 255
Read, Herbert, 520; L:153, 163; 230, 231, 231, 382
Redcliffe-Maude, Baron, 7, 8, 8
Reed, John, 355
Rees, Lady, L: 156; 157
Rees, Richard, 520; L: 317, 436, 440, 448, 451, 456, 459, 462, 467, 469, 474, 483, 484, 486; x, 23, 50, 51, 57, 58, 59, 76, 82, 98, 124, 157, 158, 162, 192, 212, 274, 289, 290, 318, 339, 366, 388, 415, 433, 437, 441, 449, 465, 482, 482
‘Reflections on Gandhi’, 101, 400
Rendall, R.A., 197
‘Reprintable Essays’, 456, 457
Reuther, Walter, 402, 404
Revolt!, 163, 165
Reynal, Eugene, L: 385, 225, 289
Reynolds, Reginald, 407
Rhine, J.B., 441
Rhine, River, 251, 260, 311
Rhondda, Lady, 24, 25
Rice, Elmer, 61
Richards, Frank (Charles Hamilton), 177, 178, 426
Richards, Marie-Louise, 426, 426
Richards, Vernon, 520; 165, 426, 426
Riddell, George, 33, 35
Ridley, Edie, 125
Road to Wigan Pier, The, 31, 56, 57, 58, 61, 62, 65, 65, 68, 68, 69, 70–1, 73, 76, 80, 85, 98, 409
Robbery under Law, 448
Roberti, Jacques, 15
Roberts, Cecil, 411, 412
Roberts, Mr, 483
Robertson, 258
Rock Pool, The, 65
Rodden, John, ix
Rollball pen, 389
Roman Catholicism, ix, xi, 13, 17, 18, 84, 286, 404, 410, 414, 401
Rome, 287, 288
Room 101, ix, 197, 476
Rose, Fred, 356
Rose, Jim, 416, 417, 425
Rossborough, Revd., 158
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 448, 451
Rossetti: His Life and Work, 451
Roughing It, 34, 38,
Routledge & Sons, L: 202; 230, 231
Rovira, Jose, 246
R[oyal] A[rmy] M[edical] C[orps], 122, 122, 127, 441
Royston, 290
Rubinstein, Harold, 47, 47
‘Rudyard Kipling’, 224
rum, 351, 440, 449
Runciman, Steven, 520; L: 6
Rushbrook Williams, L.F., 520; L: 216; L: from Laurence Brander, 208; 195, 197, 216
Russell, Bertrand, 24, 43, 164, 165, 285, 305, 334, 354, 427, 427, 440, 441, 448, 449
Russell, John, 489, 490
Russia: see USSR
Russian Enigma, 355, 356
Sahni, Balraj, 521; 195
St Andrews and Jesmond Cemetery, 261
‘St Andrew’s Day’, 49
St Cyprian’s School, 3, 5, 145, 145
St Felix School for Girls, 50, 52, 52
St Hugh’s College, 96, 98, 149
St John in the Wilderness, x
St Luke’s Gospel, 63
Salammbô, 152
Salazar, Dr Antonio de Oliveira, 232
Salis, C.E. de, L: 266
Salisbury, 126
Salkeld, Brenda, 521; L: 18, 23, 33, 35, 37, 48, 49, 50, 347, 363; xiv, 18, 19, 20, 49, 52, 463, 467
saloon rifles, 444
Salter, Alfred, 237
Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, 48
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 403, 418, 420
Saturday Weekly News Letter (BBC), 208
Sayers, Michael, L: 275; 53, 53, 54, 275–6
Sceats, John, 521;L: 132, 135; 134
Schimanski, Stefan, 244, 245
Schnetzler, Karl, 160, 300, 436
school play, 22
Scotland, 298, 300, 304, 319, 324, 329, 341, 379, 401, 405, 408, 424, 461; and see Hebrides, Jura
Schuschnigg, Kurt von, 131, 132
Science and the Planned State, 346
Scribner’s, 288
Searchlight Books, 183, 184
‘Second Thoughts on James Burnham’, 301, 319
Secret Agent, 267, 446
semicolon, their absence, 367
Senhouse, Roger, 521; L: 246, 366, 427, 447; 357, 358, 376, 388, 424
Sentimental Journey, The (Dickens), 449
serial, attempts to write, 52–3
serialisation of his books, 272, 331, 331, 479, 480, 481, 488
Shakespeare, William, 16, 44, 45, 132, 134, 334, 440–1, 441
Shannon, Miss, 358, 359
Shaw-Karen, 41, 199
Shelden, Michael, 7, 73–4, 103, 321, 435
Shelley, P.B., 483
Sherwood, Mrs Mary Martha, 19
Shiplake, 5, 443
‘Shooting an Elephant’, 31, 68, 140
shop, 59, 60, 61, 62, 64, 77; and see ‘The Stores’
Silone, Ignazio, 289, 325, 467, 468
Silver Jubilee, 1935, 50–1, 52
Simmonds, Louis, 156, 438
Sinclair, May, 469
Singapore, 34, 35, 61, 288
Sinister Street, 145, 406, 406
Sitwell, Edith, 89, 90, 182
Sitwell, Osbert, 521;16, 283, 401, 402, 408, 474
Sitwell, Sacheverell, 519;L: 181; x, 182
Skotskii Khutor, 272, 423
Slater, Hugh (Humphrey), 522; L: 326; 204, 249, 284, 296, 323, 353
Slip Under the Microscope, A, 325
smell and Orwell, see Orwell: smell
Smillie, Bob, 85
Smollett (Smolka), Peter, 235
Snooty Baronet, 19
Social Credit Movement, 23, 24
socialism/socialists, 60, 60, 69, 121, 268, 404, 414, 464
‘Socialism and War’, 132, 140
S[ocialist] B[ook] C[entre], 327, 328
sociological literary criticism, 176, 370
Solidaridad Obrera, 92, 137
Solidarity, 137
‘Some Thoughts on the Common Toad’, 281, 310
Soul of Man under Socialism, The, 398
South America, 292, 410
South Shields, xii, 70
Southwold, xv, 3, 14, 18, 21, 25, 37, 52, 55, 79, 88, 95, 115, 140, 158, 161, 181
Souvenirs de Starobielsk, 292
Soviet Communism: A New Civilisation, 354, 355
Spain/Civil War, xii, xv, 31, 41, 68, 69, 73–4, 80, 81, 82, 83–4, 85, 86, 88–9, 92–3, 93, 94–5, 97, 100, 109, 120, 130, 146, 150, 152, 153, 168, 176, 179, 180, 211, 246, 255, 285, 311, 319, 353, 383, 417 et passim
financial arrangements, 72, 77
Spanish Cockpit, The, 81, 83, 98, 99, 101
Spanish Government, 70, 92–3, 100, 109
Spanish Morocco: see Morocco
Spanish Revolution, The (journal), 73
Sparrow, Miss, 248, 255
Spectator, L: 186
Spender, Stephen, 522; L: 104; 100, 101, 105, 172, 174, 474
‘Spike, The’, 12
spirits: see brandy, rum, whisky
Spoils of Poynton, 474
Squire, John, C., 19, 19, 163, 165
Stalin/Stalinism, 31, 43, 73, 101, 101, 163, 165, 229, 232, 233, 235, 285, 285, 286, 291, 336, 346, 348, 356, 464, 465, 477
Stalino-Liber
als, 329
Stalin and German Communism, 461, 463
Star, The, 487
Starkie, Enid, 27
Starobielsk, 246, 292
Stein, Gertrude, 19
Steinbeck, John, 80
stew recipe, 51
Stock Exchange, 97
Stockton Food Office (steals coupons), 253
Stockton-on-Tees, 185, 221, 238, 242, 247, 257
‘Stores, The’, xiv, 59, 62, 74, 94, 111, 121, 130, 263, 282, 290, 320, 321, 360; see also the cottage, the shop
description, 112
Strachey, John, 86, 87, 420, 421
Strand, The, x, xii
Strand Palace Hotel, 55
streptomycin, see Orwell
Stroud, 434, 464, 472
Struve, Gleb, 522; L: 226, 271, 400, 423; 271, 272, 355, 423, 437, 480
Studs Lonigan, 413
Subramaniam, 267, 268
‘Such, Such Were the Joys’, x. 282, 312, 357, 358, 360, 375
Sudeten Germans, 122
Suffolk, 47, 88, 140, 166, 181
Summerson, Esther, 11
Sunday Times, 18, 74, 169, 490
Sunderland, xiii, 253
superstition and black magic, x, 11, 23, 181, 251
Sutton Courtney, 490
Sweden, 458,
sweets, 59, 62, 451, 466; rationing, 466–7
Swift, Jonathan, 34, 225, 322, 334, 354
Swinbank, (‘the farmer’), 251
Switzerland, 289, 331, 431, 438, 466, 471, 489, 490
Symons, A.J.A., 108, 380, 405, 406
Symons, Julian, 522; L: 379, 399, 405, 413, 419, 439, 442, 476; 414, 422, 447
Szewczenko, Ihor, 522; L: 343; L: to Orwell, 302, 343; xiii, 303, 304, 343, 344
Talking to India, 212, 213, 228
Tambimuttu, 214
Tangier, 117, 118–9, 129, 166
Tarbert, 313, 316, 422
Tauchnitz Editions, 171, 173
Tawney, R.H., and Mrs., 436, 437, 439, 467
Taylor, A.C., 186, 187
Taylor, A.J.P., 470, 471
Taylor, D.J., 182
tea, gifts of, 72, 324, 325, 337, 405, 419
tea ration, 325, 352, 337
Teheran Conference, 296, 346, 427
Ten Days that Shook the World, 354, 355
Tender is the Night, 469
Tess of the D’Urbevilles, 442, 448
textual discoveries, 491, 492
Thakin Movement, 198, 199
Thames, river, 24, 389
Thelma, 33
Thieves in the Night, 337
Third Programme: see Radio 3
Thirties, The, 356
Ticklerton, 9, 10, 11, 443
Tilly lamps, 383
Time, 284, 300, 301
Time and Tide, L: 179; 25, 61, 98, 102, 105, 446
Times, The, 58, 58, 61, 77, 184, 250
T[imes] L[iterary] S[upplement], 400
time-table, Orwell’s, 50
Titley, 125
Tolstoy, Leo, 15, 207, 334, 341, 342, 353, 354, 456
Tomlinson, Frederick, L: 369; 375
Tomkins, Mrs, 257
Tormentors, The, 460, 461
totalitarian(ism), xi, 146, 150, 173, 189, 232–3, 275, 276, 296, 347, 392, 427, 468
Toulouse, 244
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de, 55
Towards a Free Revolutionary Art, 154
tractor (purchase), 365, 370, 382, 383, 398
T[rades] U[nion] C[ongress], xviii, 179
tramping, 3, 6, 14, 22
translations, 15, 40, 272, 283, 288, 292, 299, 330, 364; and see Szewczenko
Travels in Tartary and Thibet, 37
Trease, Geoffrey, 522; L; 178; 179
Trial of a Judge, 104
Tribune, L: 264; xii, xiii, 213, 221, 224, 230, 231, 244, 245, 248–9, 251, 267–8, 271, 272, 294, 304, 309, 329, 335, 338, 341, 353–4, 380, 380, 381, 454, 470
Trilling, Lionel, 405, 486, 487
Tropic of Cancer, 63, 173, 173
Trotsky, Leon, 73, 85, 298, 336, 356
Trotskyism/Trotskyists, xii, 31, 81, 82, 84, 85, 89, 92, 99, 100, 136, 271, 285, 301, 334, 463
T[ee]T[otal], 60, 60, 351
T[uberculin] T[ested], 370, 371, 379
Tukhachevsky, Mikhail, 336
Turgenev, Ivan, 423
Turner, E.S., 417
Turner, W. J., 270, 270, 358, 359, 359
Twain, Mark, 19, 25
Twenty Deathless Poems, 34
25 Years of Soviet Russian Literature, 226
Twilight of the Gods, 19, 19
typist needed, 376, 418, 419, 424
Ukraine/Ukrainian, xiii, 155, 302–4, 343, 364, 423
Ulysses, 24, 36, 37
Under Two Dictators, 461
uniform edition, 332, 340, 342, 344, 394, 395, 399, 401, 403
dark-blue bindings, 396, 396
U[niversity] C[ollege] H[ospital], 115, 431, 438, 484, 485 (address), 486
University College, London, xii
Unser Kampf, 189
URSA: Union des Républiques, Socialistes Animales, 281, 336
USA, 206, 211, 212, 221, 231, 232, 281, 283, 284, 288, 289, 299, 329, 330, 331, 333, 341, 354, 359, 362, 375, 376, 380, 386, 387, 393, 399, 401, 404, 411, 420, 423, 435, 435, 436, 452, 459, 466, 467, 483; and see America
Usborne, Richard, 523;L: xi; x, xi, xv
US election, 394, 395
USSR (and Russia), 88, 91, 93, 153, 153, 163, 165, 189, 191, 201, 207, 226, 246, 264, 265, 271, 272, 272, 274, 275, 276, 283, 284–5, 285, 291, 292, 298, 301, 303, 333, 334, 343, 347, 349–50, 353, 354, 355, 356, 362, 365, 380, 392, 393, 395, 401, 405, 417, 421, 421, 423, 427, 437, 441, 457, 458, 459, 463, 464, 470, 470, 479, 480, 481, 483
Utley, Freda, 170
Uxbridge, 3, 25, 45, 285
Vache Enragée, La, 44, 55, 55
Valencia, 31, 76, 77, 85
Valtin, Jan, 354, 356
Van Gogh Exhibition, 389, 390
Vavilov, Nikolai, 347
VE-Day, 222
Vellat, Mme, 118
Venables, Dione, 8, 10
Verstone, Brenda, 54
Victory, 446
Victory or Vested Interests, 202
Vie Parisienne, La, 11, 16
villa, Marrakech, xviii, 118, 119, 121, 124, 128, 129, 147
‘Vision of Judgement, A/The’, 213, 214
Vizetelly, Henry, 15
Voyage of the Beagle, 34, 281, 294
Voyage to Purilia, A, 61
Waddington, Conrad Hal, 296, 297
Wade, Rosalind, 42
Walberswick, x, 12, 26, 181, 182
Wales, 51, 287, 405, 411, 434
Wallace, Edgar, 62, 175, 223, 483
Wallace, Henry, 335, 336, 353, 394, 395, 404
Wallington, xiii, xv, 32, 59, 67, 73, 74, 75, 104, 143, 158, 160, 161, 165, 175, 188, 240, 250, 264, 271, 299, 309, 321, 359, 360
Walpole, Hugh, 19
war aims, 189
War and Peace, 207
Warburg, Fredric, 523;342, 357, 387, 418, 426, 438, 471, 484; L: to Orwell, 414; xiii, 102, 106, 107, 115, 150, 170, 170, 172, 183, 183, 184, 204, 222, 225, 229, 240, 241, 243, 246, 269–70, 281, 282, 283, 291, 298, 323, 332, 340, 341, 346, 349–50, 358, 367, 369, 375, 388, 394, 396, 396, 403, 416, 423, 424, 431, 435, 436, 438, 439, 486
totake over contract, see Gollancz, Victor
war correspondent, see Orwell, George
Ward, Barbara, 285, 286
Wardell, Bertha Mary, 70, 71, 96, 184, 185
Wardell, David, 96
war diaries, 206
Warner, Rex, 474
Warsaw Uprising, 330,
Watson, Susan, 287, 288, 289, 299, 308, 311, 313, 316, 316, 317, 320, 321, 322
Waugh, Evelyn, 413, 448, 450, 452
Wavell, Gen., 186
Wayne, Milton, 481
‘W.B. Yeats’, 224
We, 226, 400, 423
Webb, Sidney and Beatrice, 354, 355
websites
, 366, 507
Wedgwood, C.V. (Veronica), 230, 230, 231, 235
weekly paper of 1851, 36
welfare foods, 253
Wellington School, 305, 306
Wells, H.G., 145, 285, 286, 325, 345, 406, 408
‘Wells, Hitler and the World State’, 224
Westminster School, 477, 484
Westrope, Francis and Myfanwy, 523;L: 155; 50, 156
Whirlpool, The, 440
whisky, 276, 352
Whiteway, 463, 464, 475
wholesalers, 59, 60
‘Why I Join the I.L.P’, xii
‘Why I Write’, 11, 281
Why was I Killed?, 474
Wiadomości, L: 446; 445–6
Wilde, Oscar, 398
Wilkes, Mrs Vaughan, 5, 5, 145, 406
Williams, Charles, 483, 483
Williams, Guy, 216
Williams, Robert, 152
Williams, Rushbrook: see Rushbrook Williams
Williamson, James, 378, 398, 413
Williamson, Kenneth, 392
Willmett, Noel, L: 232
Wilson, Edmund, 420
Wilson, E.L. Grant, 255
Wilson, J. Dover, 17
Wilton (Milton?), Michael, 76
Windmill, 260, 260, 273
winter, harsh, 341, 342, 384, 387
Wintringham, Tom, 523; L: 204; 205
Wishart, Ernest Edward, 43, 43, 168
Wodehouse, P.G., 221, 251, 253, 255, 256, 260, 263, 273, 306
Wolfe, Charles, 7
Wolfe, Lilian, 463, 464
Women in Love, 51
Wood, Alan W., 204
Wood (and as Christen), Miranda, 312
Woodcock, George, 524; L: 324, 327, 361, 381, 409; 78, 283, 325, 328, 330, 333, 334, 335, 382
Woods, Miss, 158, 162
Woolley (now Parladé), Janetta, 353
Wordsworth, William, 61
Workers’ Northern Publishing Society, 58
Working Men’s College, NW1, 364
World of George Orwell, The, 9, 299
World Review, 427, 471, 472
Wroclaw Conference, 470, 471
Y.M.C.A., 6
‘Yogi and the Commissar, The’, 330
Young, Edgar, P., 455, 455
Young, G.M., 227, 227
Young, Ida, 455, 455
Young, Richard, 18, 25, 65, 491, 492
Young Annan League, 41
Y[oung] C[ommunist] L[eague], 85
Young Men’s Buddhist Association, 199
Zabotin, Col., 356
Zamyatin, Yevgeny, 226, 400, 401
Zangwill, Israel, 452, 452
Zborski, Bartek, 21
Zilliacus, Konni, 275, 380, 381, 381, 463, 470
Zionism, 337, 380, 452, 458, 465
Zola, Émile, 15, 15
Copyright
Copyright © George Orwell
Compilation copyright © 2010 by The Estate of the late Sonia Brownell Orwell
Introduction and notes copyright © 2010 by Peter Davison
First American Edition 2013
Letters collected from The Complete Works of George Orwell, edited by Peter Davison, OBE.