Eileen: The Making of George Orwell by Sylvia Topp, the first biography of Eileen Orwell, will be in bookshops in October. Sunday May 12th will be the last day people can order the book in advance and get their names printed inside the book as supporters. Apply here. While the book will be in bookshops…Read more Eileen by Sylvia Topp: Publication Near
George Orwell and Wyndham Lewis This session is being convened by David Goodway (University of Leeds Emeritus) with short presentations on pre-circulated papers from: Robert Colls (De Montfort University), ’How radical was George Orwell?’ Paul Edwards (Bath Spa University Emeritus) 'Wyndham Lewis’s avant-garde radicalism: anarchism to fascism’ Alan Munton (University of Exeter), ’George Orwell…Read more Orwell & Lewis May 4th
By Richard Lance Keeble In March we published Professor Peter Davison's thoughts about George Orwell and film, in which Peter Davison used his experience in the industry to reflect on Orwell's attitudes. Now Professor Richard Lance Keeble begins an examination of Orwell's biographers and their treatment of his film work. Orwell, in effect, invented…Read more Orwell and Films: Another Look
Winner of £3,000 Journalism Bursary Announced * Elizabeth Howcroft is the winner of this year’s £3,000 journalism bursary awarded by The Orwell Society. A graduate of Cambridge University (where she gained a First in English), she is to take on the position of editorial trainee at Reuters in September. She said: 'The clarity and lucidity…Read more 2019 Bursary Winner
* Special Offer to OS Members * The next issue of the biannual journal, George Orwell Studies, celebrates the 70th anniversary of the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four with seven international scholars sharing their personal reflections on the novel. They are Ron Bateman, Carol Biederstadt, Kristin Bluemel, Jesús Isaías Gómez López, John Rodden, Martin Stollery and D. J. Taylor. In addition, Douglas Kerr contributes an…Read more George Orwell Studies
By Peter Davison * We have previously been privileged to publish the memoirs of Professor Peter Davison, editor of the Complete Works of George Orwell. Now Professor Davison offers some reflections on his war-time work in film, and his subsequent thoughts about George Orwell's seeming lack of interest in the same. * I read with…Read more Orwell and Film
An appeal by Dr Kenneth Blackwell, editor of the Bertrand Russell papers. * My query concerns the whereabouts of two letters from Bertrand Russell to George Orwell. These letters existed in 1967, just a year before the Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters was published in 4 volumes. In that year, on April 4th, Sonia Orwell…Read more Wrote Russell to Orwell?
