St Hugh's College, 96, 98, 149
St John in the Wilderness, x St Luke's Gospel, 63
Salammbo, 152
Salazar, Dr Antonio de Oliveira, 232
Salis, C.E. de, L: 266
Salisbury, 126
Salkeld, Brenda, 521; L: 18, 23, 33, 35, 37, 48, 49, 50, 347, 363; xiv, 18, 19, 20, 49, 52, 463, 467
saloon rifles, 444
Salter, Alfred, 237
Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, 48
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 403, 418, 420
Saturday Weekly News Letter (BBC), 208
Sayers, Michael, L: 275; 53, 53, 54, 275-6
Sceats, John, 521;L: 132, 135; 134
Schimanski, Stefan, 244, 245
Schnetzler, Karl, 160, 300, 436
school play, 22
Scotland, 298, 300, 304, 319, 324, 329, 341, 379, 401, 405, 408, 424, 461; and see Hebrides, Jura Schuschnigg, Kurt von, 131, 132
Science and the Planned State, 346
Scribner's, 288
Searchlight Books, 183, 184
'Second Thoughts on James Burnham', 301, 319
Secret Agent, 267, 446
semicolon, their absence, 367
Senhouse, Roger, 521; L: 246, 366, 427, 447; 357, 358, 376, 388, 424
Sentimental Journey, The (Dickens), 449
serial, attempts to write, 52-3
serialisation of his books, 272, 331, 331, 479, 480, 481, 488
Shakespeare, William, 16, 44, 45, 132, 134, 334, 440-1, 441
Shannon, Miss, 358, 359
Shaw-Karen, 41, 199
Shelden, Michael, 7, 73-4, 103, 321, 435
Shelley, P.B., 483
Sherwood, Mrs Mary Martha, 19
Shiplake, 5, 443
'Shooting an Elephant', 31, 68, 140
shop, 59, 60, 61, 62, 64, 77; and see 'The Stores'
Silone, Ignazio, 289, 325, 467, 468
Silver Jubilee, 1935, 50-1, 52
Simmonds, Louis, 156, 438
Sinclair, May, 469
Singapore, 34, 35, 61, 288
Sinister Street, 145, 406, 406
Sitwell, Edith, 89, 90, 182
Sitwell, Osbert, 521;16, 283, 401, 402, 408, 474
Sitwell, Sacheverell, 519;L: 181; x, 182
Skotskii Khutor, 272, 423
Slater, Hugh (Humphrey), 522; L: 326; 204, 249, 284, 296, 323, 353
Slip Under the Microscope, A, 325
smell and Orwell, see Orwell: smell Smillie, Bob, 85
Smollett (Smolka), Peter, 235
Snooty Baronet, 19
Social Credit Movement, 23, 24
socialism/socialists, 60, 60, 69, 121, 268, 404, 414, 464
'Socialism and War', 132, 140
S[ocialist] B[ook] C[entre], 327, 328
sociological literary criticism, 176, 370
Solidaridad Obrera, 92, 137
Solidarity, 137
'Some Thoughts on the Common Toad', 281, 310
Soul of Man under Socialism, The, 398
South America, 292, 410
South Shields, xii, 70
Southwold, xv, 3, 14, 18, 21, 25, 37, 52, 55, 79, 88, 95, 115, 140, 158, 161, 181
Souvenirs de Starobielsk, 292
Soviet Communism: A New Civilisation, 354, 355
Spain/Civil War, xii, xv, 31, 41, 68, 69, 73-4, 80, 81, 82, 83-4, 85, 86, 88-9, 92-3, 93, 94-5, 97, 100, 109, 120, 130, 146, 150, 152, 153, 168, 176, 179, 180, 211, 246, 255, 285, 311, 319, 353, 383, 417 et passim financial arrangements, 72, 77
Spanish Cockpit, The, 81, 83, 98, 99, 101
Spanish Government, 70, 92-3, 100, 109
Spanish Morocco: see Morocco Spanish Revolution, The (journal), 73
Sparrow, Miss, 248, 255
Spectator, L: 186
Spender, Stephen, 522; L: 104; 100, 101, 105, 172, 174, 474
'Spike, The', 12
spirits: see brandy, rum, whisky Spoils of Poynton, 474
Squire, John, C., 19, 19, 163, 165
Stalin/Stalinism, 31, 43, 73, 101, 101, 163, 165, 229, 232, 233, 235, 285, 285, 286, 291, 336, 346, 348, 356, 464, 465, 477
Stalino-Liberals, 329
Stalin and German Communism, 461, 463
Star, The, 487
Starkie, Enid, 27
Starobielsk, 246, 292
Stein, Gertrude, 19
Steinbeck, John, 80
stew recipe, 51
Stock Exchange, 97
Stockton Food Office (steals coupons), 253
Stockton-on-Tees, 185, 221, 238, 242, 247, 257
'Stores, The', xiv, 59, 62, 74, 94, 111, 121, 130, 263, 282, 290, 320, 321, 360; see also the cottage, the shop description, 112
Strachey, John, 86, 87, 420, 421
Strand, The, x, xii Strand Palace Hotel, 55
streptomycin, see Orwell Stroud, 434, 464, 472
Struve, Gleb, 522; L: 226, 271, 400, 423; 271, 272, 355, 423, 437, 480
Studs Lonigan, 413
Subramaniam, 267, 268
'Such, Such Were the Joys', x. 282, 312, 357, 358, 360, 375
Sudeten Germans, 122
Suffolk, 47, 88, 140, 166, 181
Summerson, Esther, 11
Sunday Times, 18, 74, 169, 490
Sunderland, xiii, 253
superstition and black magic, x, 11, 23, 181, 251
Sutton Courtney, 490
Sweden, 458,
sweets, 59, 62, 451, 466; rationing, 466-7
Swift, Jonathan, 34, 225, 322, 334, 354
Swinbank, ('the farmer'), 251
Switzerland, 289, 331, 431, 438, 466, 471, 489, 490
Symons, A.J.A., 108, 380, 405, 406
Symons, Julian, 522; L: 379, 399, 405, 413, 419, 439, 442, 476; 414, 422, 447
Szewczenko, Ihor, 522; L: 343; L: to Orwell, 302, 343; xiii, 303, 304, 343, 344
Talking to India, 212, 213, 228
Tambimuttu, 214
Tangier, 117, 118-9, 129, 166
Tarbert, 313, 316, 422
Tauchnitz Editions, 171, 173
Tawney, R.H., and Mrs., 436, 437, 439, 467
Taylor, A.C., 186, 187
Taylor, A.J.P., 470, 471
Taylor, D.J., 182
tea, gifts of, 72, 324, 325, 337, 405, 419
tea ration, 325, 352, 337
Teheran Conference, 296, 346, 427
Ten Days that Shook the World, 354, 355
Tender is the Night, 469
Tess of the D'Urbevilles, 442, 448
textual discoveries, 491, 492
Thakin Movement, 198, 199
Thames, river, 24, 389
Thelma, 33
Thieves in the Night, 337
Third Programme: see Radio 3
Thirties, The, 356
Ticklerton, 9, 10, 11, 443
Tilly lamps, 383
Time, 284, 300, 301
Time and Tide, L: 179; 25, 61, 98, 102, 105, 446
Times, The, 58, 58, 61, 77, 184, 250
T[imes] L[iterary] S[upplement], 400
time-table, Orwell's, 50
Titley, 125
Tolstoy, Leo, 15, 207, 334, 341, 342, 353, 354, 456
Tomlinson, Frederick, L: 369; 375
Tomkins, Mrs, 257
Tormentors, The, 460, 461
totalitarian(ism), xi, 146, 150, 173, 189, 232-3, 275, 276, 296, 347, 392, 427, 468
Toulouse, 244
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de, 55
Towards a Free Revolutionary Art, 154
tractor (purchase), 365, 370, 382, 383, 398
T[rades] U[nion] C[ongress], xviii, 179
tramping, 3, 6, 14, 22
translations, 15, 40, 272, 283, 288, 292, 299, 330, 364; and see Szewczenko Travels in Tartary and Thibet, 37
Trease, Geoffrey, 522; L; 178; 179
Trial of a Judge, 104
Tribune, L: 264; xii, xiii, 213, 221, 224, 230, 231, 244, 245, 248-9, 251, 267-8, 271, 272, 294, 304, 309, 329, 335, 338, 341, 353-4, 380, 380, 381, 454, 470
Trilling, Lionel, 405, 486,
487
Tropic of Cancer, 63, 173, 173
Trotsky, Leon, 73, 85, 298, 336, 356
Trotskyism/Trotskyists, xii, 31, 81, 82, 84, 85, 89, 92, 99, 100, 136, 271, 285, 301, 334, 463
T[ee]T[otal], 60, 60, 351
T[uberculin] T[ested], 370, 371, 379
Tukhachevsky, Mikhail, 336
Turgenev, Ivan, 423
Turner, E.S., 417
Turner, W. J., 270, 270, 358, 359, 359
Twain, Mark, 19, 25
Twenty Deathless Poems, 34
25 Years of Soviet Russian Literature, 226
Twilight of the Gods, 19, 19
typist needed, 376, 418, 419, 424
Ukraine/Ukrainian, xiii, 155, 302-4, 343, 364, 423
Ulysses, 24, 36, 37
Under Two Dictators, 461
uniform edition, 332, 340, 342, 344, 394, 395, 399, 401, 403
dark-blue bindings, 396, 396
U[niversity] C[ollege] H[ospital], 115, 431, 438, 484, 485 (address), 486
University College, London, xii Unser Kampf, 189
URSA: Union des Republiques, Socialistes Animales, 281, 336
USA, 206, 211, 212, 221, 231, 232, 281, 283, 284, 288, 289, 299, 329, 330, 331, 333, 341, 354, 359, 362, 375, 376, 380, 386, 387, 393, 399, 401, 404, 411, 420, 423, 435, 435, 436, 452, 459, 466, 467, 483; and see America Usborne, Richard, 523;L: xi; x, xi, xv US election, 394, 395
USSR (and Russia), 88, 91, 93, 153, 153, 163, 165, 189, 191, 201, 207, 226, 246, 264, 265, 271, 272, 272, 274, 275, 276, 283, 284-5, 285, 291, 292, 298, 301, 303, 333, 334, 343, 347, 349-50, 353, 354, 355, 356, 362, 365, 380, 392, 393, 395, 401, 405, 417, 421, 421, 423, 427, 437, 441, 457, 458, 459, 463, 464, 470, 470, 479, 480, 481, 483
Utley, Freda, 170
Uxbridge, 3, 25, 45, 285
Vache Enragee, La, 44, 55, 55
Valencia, 31, 76, 77, 85
Valtin, Jan, 354, 356
Van Gogh Exhibition, 389, 390
Vavilov, Nikolai, 347
VE-Day, 222
Vellat, Mme, 118
Venables, Dione, 8, 10
Verstone, Brenda, 54
Victory, 446
Victory or Vested Interests, 202
Vie Parisienne, La, 11, 16
villa, Marrakech, xviii, 118, 119, 121, 124, 128, 129, 147
'Vision of Judgement, A/The', 213, 214
Vizetelly, Henry, 15
Voyage of the Beagle, 34, 281, 294
Voyage to Purilia, A, 61
Waddington, Conrad Hal, 296, 297
Wade, Rosalind, 42
Walberswick, x, 12, 26, 181, 182
Wales, 51, 287, 405, 411, 434
Wallace, Edgar, 62, 175, 223, 483
Wallace, Henry, 335, 336, 353, 394, 395, 404
Wallington, xiii, xv, 32, 59, 67, 73, 74, 75, 104, 143, 158, 160, 161, 165, 175, 188, 240, 250, 264, 271, 299, 309, 321, 359, 360
Walpole, Hugh, 19
war aims, 189
War and Peace, 207
Warburg, Fredric, 523;342, 357, 387, 418, 426, 438, 471, 484; L: to Orwell, 414; xiii, 102, 106, 107, 115, 150, 170, 170, 172, 183, 183, 184, 204, 222, 225, 229, 240, 241, 243, 246, 269-70, 281, 282, 283, 291, 298, 323, 332, 340, 341, 346, 349-50, 358, 367, 369, 375, 388, 394, 396, 396, 403, 416, 423, 424, 431, 435, 436, 438, 439, 486
totake over contract, see Gollancz, Victor war correspondent, see Orwell, George Ward, Barbara, 285, 286
Wardell, Bertha Mary, 70, 71, 96, 184, 185
Wardell, David, 96
war diaries, 206
Warner, Rex, 474
Warsaw Uprising, 330, Watson, Susan, 287, 288, 289, 299, 308, 311, 313, 316, 316, 317, 320, 321, 322
Waugh, Evelyn, 413, 448, 450, 452
Wavell, Gen., 186
Wayne, Milton, 481
'W.B. Yeats', 224
We, 226, 400, 423
Webb, Sidney and Beatrice, 354, 355
websites, 366, 507
Wedgwood, C.V. (Veronica), 230, 230, 231, 235
weekly paper of 1851, 36
welfare foods, 253
Wellington School, 305, 306
Wells, H.G., 145, 285, 286, 325, 345, 406, 408
'Wells, Hitler and the World State', 224
Westminster School, 477, 484
Westrope, Francis and Myfanwy, 523;L: 155; 50, 156
Whirlpool, The, 440
whisky, 276, 352
Whiteway, 463, 464, 475
wholesalers, 59, 60
'Why I Join the I.L.P', xii 'Why I Write', 11, 281
Why was I Killed?, 474
Wiadomosci, L: 446; 445-6
Wilde, Oscar, 398
Wilkes, Mrs Vaughan, 5, 5, 145, 406
Williams, Charles, 483, 483
Williams, Guy, 216
Williams, Robert, 152
Williams, Rushbrook: see Rushbrook Williams Williamson, James, 378, 398, 413
Williamson, Kenneth, 392
Willmett, Noel, L: 232
Wilson, Edmund, 420
Wilson, E.L. Grant, 255
Wilson, J. Dover, 17
Wilton (Milton?), Michael, 76
Windmill, 260, 260, 273
winter, harsh, 341, 342, 384, 387
Wintringham, Tom, 523; L: 204; 205
Wishart, Ernest Edward, 43, 43, 168
Wodehouse, P.G., 221, 251, 253, 255, 256, 260, 263, 273, 306
Wolfe, Charles, 7
Wolfe, Lilian, 463, 464
Women in Love, 51
Wood, Alan W., 204
Wood (and as Christen), Miranda, 312
Woodcock, George, 524; L: 324, 327, 361, 381, 409; 78, 283, 325, 328, 330, 333, 334, 335, 382
Woods, Miss, 158, 162
Woolley (now Parlade), Janetta, 353
Wordsworth, William, 61
Workers' Northern Publishing Society, 58
Working Men's College, NW1, 364
World of George Orwell, The, 9, 299
World Review, 427, 471, 472
Wroclaw Conference, 470, 471
Y.M.C.A., 6
'Yogi and the Commissar, The', 330
Young, Edgar, P., 455, 455
Young, G.M., 227, 227
Young, Ida, 455, 455
Young, Richard, 18, 25, 65, 491, 492
Young Annan League, 41
Y[oung] C[ommunist] L[eague], 85
Young Men's Buddhist Association, 199
Zabotin, Col., 356
Zamyatin, Yevgeny, 226, 400, 401
Zangwill, Israel, 452, 452
Zborski, Bartek, 21
Zilliacus, Konni, 275, 380, 381, 381, 463, 470
Zionism, 337, 380, 452, 458, 465
Zola, Emile, 15, 15
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Orwell, his mother Ida, his sister Avril, and his father when on leave in 1916.
Rene-Noel Raimbault, Orwell's French translator.
Jacintha Buddicom leaving the solicitor's office where she had relinquished her daughter Michal (b. 1927) to her uncle and aunt, Dr and Mrs Hawley-Burke.
Jacintha Buddicom in 1948, shortly before she renewed contact with Orwell.
Norah Myles (nee Symes), a close friend of Eileen from their Oxford days.
The Stores, 2 Kits Lane, Wallington, Herts., which Orwell rented from 1936.
Eileen on the Huesca Front, sitting to the right of the machine-gunner.
Orwell is the tall figure behind her.
At the Independent Labour Party Conference, 1937.
From left to right: John McNair, Douglas Moyle, Stafford Cottman, Orwell, and Jock Branthwaite.
Eileen sitting on the wall of the villa which she and Orwell rented outside Marrakech, Morocco, 1938.
Orwell milking his goat in Morocco,
helped by Mahdjoub Mahommed.
Three of the five British and American French Foreign Legionnaires who visited the Orwells in Marrakech.
Orwell's Home Guard section. Orwell is in the back row on the far right.
Eileen c. 1941.
Orwell with his son,
Richard, at their flat in
Canonbury Square, Islington.
Orwell was a fine shot with a rifle and, surprisingly, a catapult,
as here, photographed by his wife, Eileen, in French Morocco.
Sonia Orwell in the Horizon office on her last day there, shortly after her marriage to Orwell on 13 October 1949. Also facing the camera is Lys Lubbock.
Barnhill, Jura. Orwell's large vegetable and fruit garden lies at the back of the house.
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