Three Orwell Relatives Speak Out About the Importance of Eileen The third is Richard Blair Sylvia Topp’s minutely researched biography of my mother, Eileen Blair, has been long overdue. Here was a woman whose influence over one of the great writers of the twentieth century has been overlooked, for reasons that are difficult to understand.…Read more Why Eileen Matters (III)
Three Orwell Relatives Speak Out About the Importance of Eileen The second is Quentin Kopp My family is closely connected to Eileen through her brother’s marriage to my Aunt, Dr. Gwen (Hunton) O’Shaughnessy. There have been many wonderful biographies of Orwell. There is a common feature of them all, which is that they have paid…Read more Why Eileen Matters (II)
Three Orwell Relatives Speak Out About the Importance of Eileen The First is Catherine Moncure First and foremost I think that Eileen mattered just because she was the wife of a prolific writer who became the most highly regarded author of the 20th century. She enabled him to become that writer because she understood him,…Read more Why Eileen Matters (I)
Orwell and the Arts - conference on George Orwell's art as a writer, his writing on art and his inspiration for artists and the art of drama. LGO2, Professor Stuart Hall Building, Goldsmiths, University of London, 30th May 2018. Booking through Eventbrite here. *
One of those attending Richard Blair's talk in Nerja in March 2018 was Professor Jesús Isaías Gómez López. He has now given us this account of the event. * "... permanent campaigns of media indoctrination altogether with abuse of social networks, are no more than the showcase of Orwell’s prophecies" On March 27th…Read more Richard Blair in Nerja
Orwell toma café en Huesca On March 27th 2018 Richard Blair spoke about his father, George Orwell, to a large audience in Nerja in southern Spain. The town of the title, Huesca, was one that his father saw but never visited: during Orwell's watch the town was held by the Falange, under siege from the…Read more Huesca and Return
Without holding an official title, Carol Biederstadt has become the Orwell Society's correspondent for the east coast of the USA. She reports from her "weekend jaunt", which took her to see Animal Farm on stage in historic Baltimore, and to discover that a work described by its author as a "fairy story" and a "little…Read more A Weekend Jaunt
