George Orwell: A Life in Letters (108 page)

Wintringham, Tom,
523
; L: 204;
205

Wishart, Ernest Edward, 43,
43
, 168

Wodehouse, P.G., 221, 251, 253,
255
,
256
,
260
,
2
63, 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
Parladé), 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, Émile, 15,
15

Copyright

Copyright © George Orwell

Compilation copyright © 2010 by The Estate of the late Sonia Brownell Orwell

Introduction and notes copyright © 2010 by Peter Davison

First American Edition 2013

Letters collected from
The Complete Works of George Orwell, edited by Peter Davison,
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Orwell, George, 1903–1950.

[Correspondence. Selections]

A life in letters / selected and annotated by Peter Davison. — First American edition.

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Also by George Orwell

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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.

René-Noël 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 (née 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.