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Sonia Mary Brownell (25 August 1918 – 11 December 1980), better known as Sonia Orwell, was the second wife of writer George Orwell. Sonia is believed to be the model for Julia, the heroine of Nineteen Eighty-Four.
- The Orwell Archive
- Archivist
- British
- Richard Blair (adoptive stepson)
15 giu 2003 · A Portrait of Sonia Orwell. By Hilary Spurling. Illustrated. 193 pp. New York: Counterpoint. $24. IN a life of brilliant passions, Sonia Brownell's 14-week marriage to George Orwell stands...
15 lug 2002 · Sonia Brownell, a beautiful young woman, married Orwell, a dying middle-aged man, on his deathbed in University College hospital, London. The marriage was never consummated. Why did she do it?
19 mag 2002 · Best remembered for having married George Orwell on his death-bed, and as the inspiration for the fearless, bossy Julia in 1984 , Sonia Orwell remains, more than 20 years after her death, a...
16 ago 2023 · A previous version of this article misidentified the woman in the top photo as George Orwell’s first wife, Eileen. She is his second wife, Sonia. The photo of Sonia Orwell has been...
18 feb 2020 · On 13th October 1949, Sonia Brownell and George Orwell were married in University College Hospital, where Orwell was being treated for tuberculosis. Orwell died three months later.
25 mag 2002 · 208pp, Hamish Hamilton, £9.99. This short book is a work of rescue on two counts. Sonia Orwell, the widow for 30 years of George Orwell, is not widely known. She has appeared in a secondary...
