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  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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  Also by George Orwell

  FICTION

  Burmese Days

  A Clergyman's Daughter Keep the Aspidistra Flying Coming Up for Air

  Animal Farm

  Nineteen Eighty-Four NON-FICTION

  Down and Out in Paris and London The Road to Wigan Pier Homage to Catalonia A Kind of Compulsion (1903-36) Facing Unpleasant Facts (1937-39) A Patriot After All (1940-41) All Propaganda Is Lies (1941-42) Keeping Our Little Corner Clean (1942-43) Two Wasted Years (1943) I Have Tried to Tell the Truth (1943-44) I Belong to the Left (1945) Smothered Under Journalism (1946) It Is What I Think (1947-48) Our Job Is to Make Life Worth Living (1949-50) Critical Essays

  Narrative Essays

  Diaries

  Photo

  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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