Sylvia Topp

Eileen (eBook, ePUB)

The Making of George Orwell

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is the never-before-told story of George Orwell's first wife, Eileen, a woman who shaped, supported, and even saved the life of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers.

In 1934, Eileen O'Shaughnessy's futuristic poem, 'End of the Century, 1984', was published. The next year, she would meet George Orwell, then known as Eric Blair, at a party. 'Now that is the kind of girl I would like to marry!' he remarked that night. Years later, Orwell would name his greatest work, Nineteen Eighty-Four, in homage to the memory of Eileen, the woman who shaped his life and his art in ways that have never been acknowledged by history, until now.

From the time they spent in a tiny village tending goats and chickens, through the Spanish Civil War, to the couple's narrow escape from the destruction of their London flat during a German bombing raid, and their adoption of a baby boy, Eileen is the first account of the Blairs' nine-year marriage. It is also a vivid picture of bohemianism, political engagement, and sexual freedom in the 1930s and '40s.

Through impressive depth of research, illustrated throughout with photos and images from the time, this captivating and inspiring biography offers a completely new perspective on Orwell himself, and most importantly tells the life story of an exceptional woman who has been unjustly overlooked.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Unbound
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783527502
• Artikelnr.: 57733683

Autorenporträt

Sylvia Topp is the author of numerous essays, including 'Hidden Husbands' and 'You Can't Get to Barnhill from Here'. She has worked in publishing since college, starting as a copy editor on medical journals, then moving to freelance editing at major literary publishing houses. She was the long-time wife and partner of Tuli Kupferberg, a Beat poet who later was a co-founder, in 1964, of the Fugs, a legendary rock and roll band. Together Sylvia and Tuli wrote, edited, and designed over thirty books and magazines, including As They Were, 1001 Ways to Live Without Working, and Yeah! magazine. Sylvia joined the staff at The Soho Weekly News and later The Village Voice, before finishing her publishing career at Vanity Fair. Eileen is her first book. She lives in Kingston, Ontario.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Peter Davison
Introduction by Sylvia Topp
1 A Complicated Ancestry
2 Head Girl at High School
3 Honours at Oxford
4 Between Oxford and Orwell
5 A Whirlwind Courtship
6 Orwell in Love
7 Six Happy Months of Marriage
8 Escape from Catalonia
9 From Overwork to Near Tragedy
10 Abandoned Again
11 Coming Up for Air in Morocco
12 War Ends the Wallington Experiment
13 The Worst Years of Her Life
14 Coming into Her Own at Last
15 But Smooth Sailing Was Never an Option
16 Nearly a Happy Ending
Epilogue: Orwell Without Eileen
Appendix: Two Complete Letters by Eileen 
Notes 
A Note of Appreciation
Index
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