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  A[ir] R[aid] [Precautions], 126, 127

  air-raid shelters, 122, 126, 188

  A.J.A. Symons: His Life and Speculations, 380, 406

  Albacete, 76, 78

  Albatross Library, 170, 171, 172, 173

  Alexander Pope, 90

  Ali, Ahmed, 213, 215

  Allan Wingate, 406

  Allenby, Field Marshall, 186

  Amato, Mr, 46

  America, 64, 129, 174, 205, 206, 228, 229, 284, 288, 330, 332, 350, 352, 380, 386, 393, 394, 403; and see USA 'American Reverie, An', 284, 285

  Anand, Mulk Raj, 509;L: 207; 207

  anarchism, anarchists, 93, 109, 303, 334, 349, 383, 464

  Anders, General, 292

  Anderson, Evelyn, 248, 255

  Anderson, Mrs, 122, 142, 239, 240

  Anderson shelter, 120, 122, 125, 142, 240

  And Even Now, 48

  Andover, 249

  Anglo-Catholic, 483

  Anglo-Indian(s), xi, 124, 420, 455

  Angus, Ian, xiv, 76, 235, 255, 316, 413

  Animal Farm, 228

  as 'little squib', 226

  film rights, 331, 340

  Orwell's interpretation, 333, 334, 336

  radio adaptation, 334, 336, 337, 338

  serialisation, 272

  translations, 272, 283, 288, 299, 330, 331, 415

  turning point, 334, 336

  Animaux Partout!, Les, 281

  Anisimov, Ivan, 437

  anti-Russian, 265, 285, 458

  anti-semitism: see Jews anti-Stalin, 229, 333

  anti-war activities, 131, 132, 138, 153, 394, 464

  Ape and Essence, 449

  Apponyi, Alexandrine, 490

  Arabic, 5, 147, 151, 155

  Arab funerals, 128, 129

  Arabs, 118, 120, 124, 135, 138, 143, 147, 150, 151, 152, 155, 156, 157, 166

  Aragon front, 69, 91

  Aragon, Louis, 213, 214, 301

  Ardent, HMS, 71

  Ardlussa, 250, 255, 314, 315, 316, 389, 452, 478

  Ardrishaig, 485

  Arquer, Jordi, 509;L: 477; 31

  'Art of Donald McGill, The', 225, 481

  'As I Please', 221, 228, 304, 329, 330, 337, 353, 365

  'As One Non-Combatant to Another', 214

  Assault Guards, 106

  Astor, David, 509;L: 365, 370, 386, 388, 389, 390, 398, 416, 421, 425, 434, 472, 478, 485; L: from Bruce Dick, 433; xiv, xv, 25, 250, 255, 369, 375, 383, 387, 391, 432, 474, 490

  Astor, Lady, 24, 24

  Astor, Lord, 24, 242

  Astor, Mrs David, L: 397

  Atlantic Islands, The, 392

  Atlas Mountains, 115, 128, 135, 144, 151, 155, 157

  atomic bombs/war, 274, 399, 417, 421, 421

  Attlee, Clement, 110, 138, 139, 385

  Aubrey, John, 368, 368, 475, 475

  Auden, W.H., 105, 339

  Aung San, 199

  Austerlitz, Battle of, 207

  Austin (car), 484

  Australian, 204, 204

  Austria, 132, 242, 264

  Ayer, Alfred Jules, 305, 306, 323, 324

  Aylesford Sanatorium, 103, 105, 159, 160

  Baillie-Stewart, Norman, 382

  Baker, Denys Val, 228

  Baker, John, 296, 297, 346, 347

  Bakerism, 346

  Balabanov, Angelica, 354, 356

  Balderston Warren & Co, 360

  Bali and Angkor, 62

  Ballard, Arthur, 291

  ball-point pens, 488; and see Biro, Rollball Bantock, G.H., L: 276

  Barcelona, 77, 79, 90, 93, 152, 156, 162

  escape from, 83

  May Events/Riots, 81, 83-4, 89, 92, 100, 106, 109, 180

  Barnes, Bishop E.W., 25

  Barney the Apostate, 24

  Barnhill, xi, 18, 250, 255, 281, 282, 290, 298, 312, 316, 348, 365, 366, 375, 378, 384, 396, 402, 426, 434, 437, 451, 462, 487, et passim; and see Jura description, 314-5, 317, 397

  future, 379, 469

  Barres, Philippe, 203

  Bashkirtseff, Marie, 452, 452

  Basic English, 226, 227

  basic petrol, 391, 391

  Bates, H.W., 409, 410

  Battalia, La, 92

  bayonets, 186, 187, 187

  Bayou, Pamela de (Mrs Warburg), 358

  Bayswater, 33

  BBC, 60, 116, 197, 216, 227, 346, 455; and see Indian Service Radio Three, 196, 326

  resignation, 215, 216, 216-7, 226

  treated well, 216

  'Beachcomber', 17

  Beddard, Terence, 7

  Bedworthy, Barbara, 48

  Beerbohm, Max, 48

  Before the Bombardment, 408

  Beggar My Neighbour, 214

  Belgium, 82, 343, 364

  Benes, Edvard, 395

  Benjamin, the donkey, xiv Bennett, Arnold, 55

  Beresford, Ruth, 322

  Best Poems of 1934, 34

  Bevan, Anuerin, xii, 244, 335, 465

  Beveridge Report, 210, 388

  Bing, Geoffrey, 93

  Binns Department Store, 253

  Biro, 294, 370, 379, 380, 389, 489

  birth control, 24

  birth rate, 210, 210

  Blackburn, Mrs, 255, 260

  Blackburn, Raymond, 251, 253, 255, 257

  black magic: x, 23; and see superstition Blackshirts, 58, 58

  Black Spring, 63-5, 65

  Blair, Avril, 509;L: to Humphrey Dakin,314; to Michael Kennard, 415; x, xii, 5, 18, 67, 119, 259, 282, 311, 315, 316, 366, 377, 384, 436, 437, 440, 443, 451, 456, 459, 462, 464, 466, 469, 474, 485, 487 et passim Blair, Eileen (and as 'Pig'), 509; L: 74; L: to her husband, 247, 258, 260; L: to Jack Common, 103; L: to Mary Common, 142; L: to Lettice Cooper, 256; L: to Geoffrey Gorer, 128; L: to Denys King-Farlow, 110; L: to Leonard Moore, 107, 243; L: to her mother, 71; L: to Norah Myles, 66, 69, 94, 146, 183, 187; L: to Dr Laurence O'Shaughnessy, 76; L: from Marjorie Dakin, 125; adoption of little girl?, 252, 255; and see 10

  death, 221, 261, 262

  house at Harefield, 248

  house in country, 250

  hysterectomy, 257

  ill-health, 122, 160, 183-4, 185, 188, 189, 192, 248

  irony, 146

  London a nightmare, 251

  operation, 248

  tumours, 249

  will, 260

  xiii, xiv, 70, 76, 116, 160, 256, 307, 345

  Blair, Eric see Orwell, George Blair, Ida, 510;L: 5; x, 68

  Blair, Marjorie: see Dakin, Marjorie Blair, Richard (Orwell's son), 510; 273, 366, 393 et passim adoption, 237, 237

  horoscope, x, 237, 238, 238

  pocket money, 451, 466

  relations with father, 449, 464, 475

  schooling, 308, 311, 322, 408, 420, 439, 443, 461, 466, 469, 473, 474, 477, 478, 482, 484, 487

  Blair, Richard Walmsley, 510;x, xi, xiv, 21, 33, 67, 115, 118, 146, 152, 158, 165, 169, 174

  Bland Beginning, 442

  Bless 'Em All, 204, 204

  Blok, Alexander, 226, 226

  Bloy, Leon, 413, 413

  Blunden, Edmund, 270, 270, 358, 359

  Bob(bie), the horse, 366, 371, 387, 398, 422

  Bodleian Library, 251

  Bokhari, Zulfaqar Ali, 510; L: 185; 197

  Bolsheviks, 80, 105, 236

  Booklovers' Corner, 42, 43, 50, 53, 156, 380

  Book of Common Prayer, 62

  Book of the Month Club (USA), 281, 309, 309, 317, 431, 453, 456, 459

  books ordered, 155

  'Books that Changed the World', 207

  Boothby, Guy, 19

  Borkenau, Franz, 83, 98, 354, 454

  Born in Exile, 399

  'Boule de Suif', 48, 325

  Bowker, Gordon, 18, 196

  Boyle, Francis, 417, 451, 452

  boys' papers, 175-6, 177, 283, 298, 304, 412

  'Boys' Weeklies', 172, 225, 306

  Boys will be Boys, 417

  Brailsford, Henry Noel, 510;L: 90, 91; 93, 100, 101

  Bran
der, Laurence, 510;L: to L.F. Rushbrook Williams, 208; 326

  brandy, 252, 322, 352

  Branthwaite, Jock, 83, 85

  Brideshead Revisited, 413

  Bridgwater by-election, 136

  Brighton, 50-1, 52, 437, 462, 469

  Bristol, 70, 84, 121, 126, 127, 146, 148, 184, 188

  Britain in Pictures, 225, 227, 229, 269, 270, 358, 359, 360

  'Britain's Silent Revolution', 199

  British Cookery, 294

  British Council, 286, 293

  British Pamphleteers, 407, 439

  British People, The, 358

  broadcasting, 23, 34, 45, 108, 122, 185, 195, 207, 207, 214, 289, 294, 326, 336, 339, 347, 368, 431, 481, 481

  Indian Service, iii, 145, 198, 208, 210, 227, 326

  on literary criticism, 185

  Brock, R.W., 197

  Brockway, Fenner, 72, 74

  bronchiectasis, 107, 110, 305, 307

  Brown, Ivor, 511;L: 215, 391; L: to Dr Thomas Jones, 242; 217, 249, 253, 369, 370, 392

  Browne, Alec, 57

  Browne, Mallory, 295, 295, 296

  Browne, Raymond R., ix

  Brownell, Sonia, 511;L: 351, 473; L: to Yvonne Davet, 489; 353, 431, 471, 478, 484, 490

  proposed marriage to,478, 484, 487

  Buddicom, Guinever, 10, 443, 445

  Buddicom, Jacintha, 511;L: 443, 444, 473; L: to a friend, 8; 10-11, 431, 443, 445

  Buddicom, Prosper, 10, 443, 445

  'Burial of Sir John Moore', 7

  Burma (Myanmar)/Burmese, x, xi, xiii, 3, 9, 10, 34, 39, 55, 63, 68, 102, 131, 135, 141, 198-9, 199, 199, 394, 402, 443, 445, 455

  Burmese Days, iii, 14, 15, 16, 16, 18, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 23, 24, 31, 37, 38, 39, 41, 42, 43, 44, 46, 49, 50, 64, 134, 170, 211, 211, 274, 319, 332, 396, 399-400, 400, 435, 484

  pirated edition, 170

  Burnham, James, 301, 319, 328, 330

  Burns, Cecil Delisle, 441

  Burns, Oates & Washburne, 231

  Buttonshaw, 76, 76

  B.V.M., 16, 17

  by-elections, 136, 136

  Byron, Lord, 214

  Cafe des Deux Magots, Paris, 384, 385

  Cain, James, M., 442

  Caine, Hall, 33

  Cambridge, 5, 20, 62, 63, 289, 305

  Camus, Albert, 301, 384

  Canada/Canadians, 10, 44, 209, 289, 356, 362

  Canadian Government Blue Book, 355, 356

  Canonbury Square flat, 18, 238, 239, 241, 250, 252, 255, 376, 419, 462

  'Can Socialists Be Happy?', 221

  Cape's: see Jonathan Cape Capri, 467

  Carco, Francis, 44

  Cargoe, Richard, 460

  Caroe, E.A., 7, 8, 8

  Carpenter, Edward, 66

  Carr, Mrs., 16, 18

  Casablanca, 117, 118, 119, 124, 138, 158, 161, 166

  Casteret, Norbert, 392

  Catalan, 93, 106

  catapult, Orwell's skill with, 345

  Cayenne, 11

  censorship, 79, 100, 206, 210, 265, 294, 297, 299

  Censorship Office (Whitehall), 116, 188, 192

  chaining German prisoners, 208, 209

  Challaye, Felicien, 101

  Chamberlain, Neville, 121, 122, 123, 126, 129, 131, 133, 136, 138, 139, 145, 163, 394

  Chapel Ridding, xv, 98

  Charles Dickens, 449

  Charlot, M., 318, 319, 319

  Charoux, Mr., 479, 487

  Cheyney, Peter, 441, 442

  Children Be Happy, 42

  Children of the Ghetto, 452

  Children's Hour, 45, 281, 326, 339

  China, 39, 41, 134, 214, 236, 237, 237, 405, 462

  Chleuh, 155, 157

  Chollerton, A.T., 459

  Christen, Mrs, 312, 368, 411; and see Wood, Mrs Miranda christianity, 11, 18, 199, 242, 403; and see Church of England, Roman Catholic(s) hymns, 410

  Christian Science Monitor, 295, 394

  Christmas celebrations/greetings, xiv, 21, 54, 55, 95, 143-4, 148, 152, 184, 287, 370, 375, 378, 384

  shopping, 54, 94, 126, 142, 150, 198, 421

  Christy & Moore, 274; and see Moore, Leonard Churchill, Winston, 139, 205, 276

  Church of England, ix, 62, 432

  Thirty-Nine Articles, 159

  Church Times, 20, 24, 47

  Ciliga, Anton, 355, 356

  Cinderella, 45, 338

  circumcision, 337

  Civil Guards, 106

  Clarke, Roger, 11

  class-breaking, 60

  Cle, La, 154, 154

  Clergyman's Daughter, A, x, 10, 23, 34, 37, 41, 42, 47, 50, 64, 328

  libel cuts, 47, 491

  proof readings, 491

  'Clink', 21, 23

  clothes rationing ends, 177, 329-30, 331, 452, 452

  Clue to History, The, 200

  Clutton-Brock, Alan, 63, 63

  Cochin Hospital, Paris, 3

  Cohen, Edna, 54

  Cole, G.D.H., 463, 464

  Collet's bookshop, 327, 328

  Collings, Dennis, 511;L: 12; 18, 20, 34, 35, 61, 141, 288

  Collins, Norman, 57, 58, 323

  Collins's, 225, 359

  Cologne, 244, 246, 249, 251, 256, 257

  Combined Maze, The, 469

  Comfort, Alex, 512;L: 200, 213; L: to Orwell, 201; 212, 213, 223, 228

  'comics', 283; and see boys' papers, 'Boys' Weeklies'

  Coming Up for Air, 24, 102, 115, 172, 173, 211, 234, 320, 332, 333, 340, 342, 344, 345, 399, 405, 413, 484

  absence of semicolons, 367, 367

  preparations/progress, 129, 132-3, 135, 147, 149, 150, 160, 166

  Commentary, 457, 479

  Common, Jack, 512;L: 57, 59, 111, 123, 130, 149, 157, 161, 165, 482; 104, 105, 482 L: from Eileen, 103-4; loan, 482

  xiv, 103, 104, 105, 121-2, 128, 482

  Common, Mary, L: from Eileen, 142; xiv, 103, 161, 162 et passim Common, Peter, 142 et passim 'Common Lodging Houses', 21

  Common Wealth National Committee, 205

  C[ommunist] P[arties]/communism/communists, 22, 43, 75, 78, 80

  Complete Works of George Orwell, xiii, xvi, xviii, 18, 39, 106, 181, 304, 491, 492

  concentration camps, 120, 251, 265, 291, 354-5, 464

  looming, 102, 125, 135, 155, 156, 347

  'Confessions of a Dishwasher', 22

  Confidential Agent, The, 460

  Connolly, Cyril, 512; L: 7, 102, 144; x, 7, 62, 63, 145, 172, 173, 174, 213, 327, 353, 357, 406, 406, 473, 487

  Conrad, Joseph, 266-7, 445-7, 484

  conscription, 131, 335, 380

  Conservative (Party), 58, 131, 139, 145, 402, 460, 491

  Constant Nymph, 33

  contemporary scene, writing about, 460—1

  Contempt of Freedom, The, 355

  Continental Hotel, Marrakech, 118

  Continental Hotel, Tangier, 117, 119

  contract with Gollancz: see Gollancz Controversy, 85, 136

  Cooper, Lettice, 512;L: from Eileen, 256; 53, 188, 239, 449

  copyright problems, 234, 332, 342

  Corelli, Marie, 33

  Cornwall, 7, 126

  Corryvreckan Whirlpool, 363, 385

  'Cost of Letters', 327

  Cotswold Sanatorium: see Cranham Sanatorium cottage, the: see The Stores and shop Cottman, Stafford, 512; L: 310; 71, 83, 84, 87, 311

  as 'boy of eighteen', 86

  Country of the Blind, 145, 406

  court appearance, 244, 256

  Cow & Gate milk, 419

  C Programme: see Radio 3

  Craighouse, 309, 314, 315, 352

  Crainquebille, 325, 414

  Cranham Sanatorium, 11, 383, 427, 431, 433, 434, 435, 437, 438, 454, 464, 472, 475, 485

  Crankshaw, Edward, 417, 418

  Crick (cinema proprietor), 20, 21

  Crillon Hotel, 3

  Criterion, The, 339

  Criterion, the, 97

  Critical Essays, ix, 231, 290, 298, 332, 345

  croquet, 412


  Crosse & Blackwell pickles, 73

  Crossman, R.H.S., 380, 380

  Crux Ansata, 285, 286

  crypto-communists, 455, 457, 463, 464, 470

  cuckoo, 309

  Curran, Charles, 471, 472

  currency equivalents, xviii, 74

  C.W. Review, 330

  Czapski, Joseph, 246, 292

  Czech Silesia, 122

  Czechoslovakia/Czechs, 121, 122, 123, 131, 133, 153, 395, 395, 455, 455

  Daily Herald, 101

  Daily Mail, 110, 487

  Daily Worker, 21, 22, 75, 76, 85, 86, 89, 140, 311, 420

  Dakin, Dr, 127, 127

  Dakin, Henry, 127, 148, 314, 315

  Dakin, Humphrey, 512; L: from Avril Blair, 314; 122, 127, 148, 149

  Dakin, Jane, 127, 127, 148, Dakin, Lucy, 127, 148

  Dakin, Marjorie, 512;L: 311; L: from Eileen, 120; L: to Eileen, 125; 127, 148, 149

  Dali, Salvador, 229, 288, 386

  Dante, 475

  Dark Side of the Moon, The, 355, 356

  Darlington, C.D., 513;L: 346; 346, 347, 454

  Darlington station, 247

  Darroch, Donald and Kate, 365, 366, 389, 389

  Darroch, Neil, 390

  Dartford by-election, 136

  Dartmoor Prison, 150

  Darwin, Charles, 34; see Voyage of the Beagle Davenport, John, 419, 421

  Davet, Yvonne, 513; L: 297, 318; L: from Sonia Orwell, 489; 56, 169, 170, 336

  Davey, Charles, 409, 410

  Davies, E. Rowan, 513;L: 198

  Dawn's Delay, The, 413

  'Days in London and Paris', 14

  Dearman, Mr, 320, 321

  deaths of Orwell's relatives and friends in his lifetime: Alan Clutton-Brock's wife, 63; Godfrey Meynell, 63; his father, 115; Bobby Longden, 305, 306; Teddy Lovett, 71; his mother, 196; Anne Popham's fiance, 295; Eileen, 261; his sister Marjorie, 312; Victor Serge, 299

  Declaration of the Rights of Man, 285, 286

  'Decline of the English Murder', 281

  Deeping, Warwick, 441, 441

  de Gaulle, Charles, 203, 204, 225, 232, 417, 422

  Denmark, 88

  Desai, R.R., 513; L: 210

  Desmarais, Ralph, 346

  Deutsch, Andre, 231

  De Valera, Eamon, 232

  Devon, 126, 179

  Dial Press, 229, 241, 270, 283

  Dick, Dr Bruce, 513; L: to David Astor, 433; xv, 378, 386, 390

  Dick, Kay, 513;L: 273; Dickens, Charles, 12, 36, 169, 172, 224, 449

  Dickens, Dali & Others, ix, 225, 288, 386

  Dieppe Raid, 209, 209

  Dinamov, Sergei, 514;L: 80

  Diot, Dr., 118, 119

  Discovery, 346, 347

  distance learning, 195

  Distressed Areas, 31, 65, Dollfuss, Engelbert, 131, 132

  Donoghue, Pat, 262, 264, 271, 320, 360

  Donovan, Paddy, 311, 311, 366

  Doran, Charles, 514; L: 83, 127

  Dorset, x, 107, 157, 160

  Dover, Cedric, 228

  doves, 121, 148

  Down and Out in Paris and London, xi, 3, 14, 38, 39, 40, 41, 45, 45, 46, 55, 64, 139, 150, 308, 445

  DPs (Displaced Persons), 343, 364, 423, 479, 483

  dramatisations, 45, 294, 431, 481

  Dr. Faustus, 16

  Driberg, Tom, 458

  Drinkwater, John, 65, 163, 165, 221, 225

  drought, 22, 26, 62, 128, 313, 363, 365

  Dr. Nikola, 19, 19

  Drummond, Lindsay, 245

  Dunkirk, 115, 189, 204

  Dunn, Bill, 365, 366, 371, 377, 380, 390, 393, 398, 416, 437, 440, 451, 469, 485, 488

  Durant, John, 65, 185

  Durant, Margaret, 65

  Durant, Norman, 65, 98, 184, 185

  Eagleton, Terry, ix

  E.A.M. (Greece), 265, 266