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10 giu 2024 · Le accuse a Orwell. Nonostante ciò, la bestsellerista Anna Funder, autrice del controverso Wifedom: Mrs Orwell Invisible Life, pubblicato nel 2023, osserva come Mrs Blair (così aveva sempre voluto farsi chiamare) visse giorno dopo giorno nella trascuratezza del marito e nella sua ingratitudine.
6 giu 2024 · Sonia Orwell (née Brownell) was an enthusiastic advocate of the arts and literature and was an important figure on the London literary scene. She was a renowned beauty. She married the English novelist, George Orwell (1903-1950), shortly before his premature death from tuberculosis.
8 giu 2024 · The IEA has released a 75th anniversary edition of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four with You Do Not Exist, by Christopher Snowdon.
15 giu 2024 · It was good news for the Orwell estate, at least, even if Orwell’s widow - second wife Sonia - was famously protective of his work. Before the BBC adaptation, the book had been selling 150 hardbacks a week; that rose to a thousand and the Penguin paperback sold 18,000.
3 giorni fa · In 2017, Mrs Orwell by British playwright Tony Cox opened at the Old Red Lion Theatre in London before transferring to the Southwark Playhouse. The play centres on Orwell's second wife Sonia Brownell (played by Cressida Bonas), her reasons for marrying Orwell and her relationship with Lucian Freud.
7 giu 2024 · The Women Who Made 20th Century Bohemian London. Strongwoman Jean Rhodes was one of a multitude of women who thrived in, and helped create, the Bohemian London of the 20th century. Image: fair use...
7 giu 2024 · Here, we look over some of the key titles one might find while haunting such a shop and inhaling the “sweet smell of decaying paper”. Down and Out in Paris and London (1933) was Orwell’s first full-length work, a two part memoir of his life among the poor and destitute in and around the two cities.
