Articles

 

The Orwell Society and, before its formation, its friends who met online at the Finlay Publishers’ website have contributed many articles of interest. This page is designed to be an index to our authors and the subjects on which they have written. We have grouped these as our Vanguard, Contributors, On Orwell’s Books, and More!

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Our Vanguard

By Richard Blair

• “1984′ in Pittsburgh – ‘A Trip Worth Making’ (2017)
• Orwell Takes Coffee in Huesca – A Wonderful Exhibition (2017)
• George Orwell in Cranham (2016)
• Life With My Aunt, Avril Blair (2009 Finlay Publishers, 2011)

Lucy Bestley and Jane Morgan

• Orwell’s nieces  recall Uncle Eric on Jura
• Orwell’s nieces and nephew recall “Uncle Eric”

By Sonia Brownell Orwell

• The Euston Road Group (1941, transcribed 2016)

By Bernard Crick

• Orwell as Comic Writer (2008 Finlay Publishers, 2011)

By Peter Davison

• Memoirs (2016)
• The Enigma of Georges Kopp (Review)
• Orwell and Sport (2011)
• Orwell at the BBC: Two Wasted Years? (2011)
• “Dickens – first and last”
• “Orwell Goes East” (2012)
• On parallels between George Orwell & Vasily Grossman (2012)
• Farewell & Hail to [Finlay Publishers’] Orwell site (2012)

Dione Venables

• Shiplake in War-Time

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Our Contributors

By Gerry Abbott

• Captain Robinson and the Poet
• Tressell and Orwell

By Stephen Armstrong

• The Road to Wigan Pier Revisited
• On Retracing Orwell’s Wigan Journey

By Desmond Avery

• 1942 – A Well Spent Year Introduction (2012)
• 1942 – A Year Well Spent, part 1
• 1942 – A Year Well Spent, part 2
• 1942 – A Year Well Spent, part 3
• 1942 – A Year Well Spent, Epilogue

By Ron Bateman

• Writers and Hop-Picking (2012)

By Carol Biederstadt

• “1984” National Screening Day: Some Reflections
• Review of 1984 at the Flux Factory, New York

By Philip Bounds

• The Lion and the Unicorn (2017)
• Orwell and the Paranormal

By Dominic Cavendish

• Orwell Week 2013
• Orwell, unsung theatre critic
• Coming Up For Air Re-visited
• Nineteen Eighty-Four just came knocking in 2012
• A few thoughts on Orwell, Kipling and Left-baiting

By Oscar Clarke

• Orwell’s battle with the intelligentsia (2015)

By Tim Crook

• Welcome to Dystopia (2017)

By Denis Frize

• The Truth and Mister Blair (2014)

By Christopher Hall 

• Orwell’s Commander in Spain: The enigma of Georges Kopp – Review

By Rachel Halliburton

• Casting a modern eye on A Clergyman’s Daughter

By Henry Hitchings

• Orwell and Language

By William Hunt

• New Light on Orwell’s Lost Youth

By L. J. Hurst

• Raymond Chandler, George and Sonia Orwell (2015)
• The Ardizzones, Jacintha Buddicom and Eric Blair? (2014)
• British Pamphleteers Volumes One and Two (2016)
• O’Shaughnessy, Struve, Zamyatin: The Tyneside Braid? (2016)
• World Review: A magazine recommended by Orwell (2016)
• Propaganda – Better To Tell The Truth? Orwell’s Question (2016)
• One Died, One Arrived: 80 Years Ago (Cornford and Orwell) (2016)
• The Adelphi Magazine: A 1930s home for George Orwell (2017)
• Gerrard Winstanley, Diggers, Orwell and Reynolds (2017)

By L.J. Hurst and Richard Young

• George Orwell Reads A Book That Never Was (2015)

By Richard Lance Keeble

• Orwell Watched by the Secret State in Wigan (2017)
• Orwell Appreciated; just months after he died (2017)
• Spooks and Scoops: Orwell, Astor and The Observer (2016)
• Chomsky, Orwell and the Myth of Press Freedom (2015)
• Orwell and the spooks
• Orwell – the protoblogger
• Orwell and Leveson
• The cultural icon of today
• Orwell, Astor – and me

By Douglas Kerr

• Orwell and the Booksellers
• Orwell, Kipling and Empire

By Quentin Kopp

• Homage to Catalonia, Orwell’s time in Spain revisited

By Harriet O’Brien

• Orwell’s Burma: the trail that opened up for visitors

By John Rodden

• Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011): the Orwell of his generation?

By Sylvia Topp

• “You Can’t Get to Barnhill from Here”

By Steven Wadhams

• Orwell’s Crystal Chandelier

By Richard Westwood

• Vera Brittain versus George Orwell

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Books

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Animal Farm (1945-2015)

In August 2015 the Orwell Society sponsored a series of original articles on the origins, development, history and genre of George Orwell’s fairy story Animal Farm.

• Seventy Years Of Relevance: The Birth of Animal Farm by L J Hurst
  
• Animal Farm – A Sequel, In Three Parts by Nigel Bryant
• Part One
• Part Two
• Part Three

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Keep The Aspidistra Flying (1936 -2016)

In April 2016 the Orwell Society sponsored a series of original articles to mark the 80th anniversary of George Orwell’s novel Keep The Aspidistra Flying.

• April 1936: The Publication
• Is Gordon Comstock’s World an Improvement on Gissing’s? by Loraine Saunders
• Getting Closer to the Original Text by Richard Young
• Keep the Aspidistra Flying in Hampstead by Lorcan Greene
• No Surrender To The Status Quo? Orwell’s Keep The Aspidistra Flying by M. G. Sherlock
• Orwell and the Booksellers by Douglas Kerr
• Comstock Footage: The Aspidistra on Film by David Ryan

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More

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Orwell and the Left Book Club

• Brady’s Spirit and Structure of German Fascism
• Horrabin’s Atlas of Current Affairs
• Macartney’s Walls Have Mouths

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Symposiae

• Director Robert Icke and playwright Duncan Macmillan talk to Dominic Cavendish about Headlong’s 1984.

 

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By and About Christopher Hitchens

• Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011) by Prof John Rodden
• Christopher Hitchens likening North Korea to Nineteen Eighty-Four
• Why Orwell Matters (Hay Festival address, 2002)

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