[1] Thomas Cushman and John Rodden (editors), George Orwell: Into the Twenty-first Century (2004), page 98, attended Anglican mass regularly. See also Christopher Hitchens, Why Orwell Matters (2003), page 123, Orwell having left written instructions that he was to receive an Anglican funeral.
Father: Richard Blair
Mother: Ida
Sister: Marjorie (older)
Sister: Avril (younger)
Wife: Eileen O'Shaughnessy (m. 1936, d. 1945)
Son: Richard Horatio Blair (adopted, b. May-1944)
Wife: Sonia Brownell (m. 1949)
High School: St Cyprian's School, Eastbourne, Sussex
High School: Eton College (1917-21)
Shot: Battle Spain (May-1937)
Is the subject of books:
The Unknown Orwell, 1972, BY: Peter Stansky and William Abrahams
Orwell: The Transformation, 1979, BY: Peter Stansky and William Abrahams
George Orwell: A Life, 1980, BY: Bernard Crick
Orwell, 1991, BY: Michael Shelden
Inside George Orwell: A Biography, 2003, BY: Gordon Bowker
Orwell: The Life, D. J. Taylor
Author of books:
Down and Out in Paris and London (1933, novel)
Burmese Days (1934, novel)
A Clergyman's Daughter (1935, novel)
Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936, novel)
The Road to Wigan Pier (1937, nonfiction)
Homage to Catalonia (1938, memoir)
Coming Up For Air (1939)
The Lion and the Unicorn (1941, nonfiction)
Animal Farm (1945, novel)
1984 (1949, novel)
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