George Orwell: A Life in Letters (99 page)

Bridgwater by-election,
136

Brighton, 5
0–1, 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, 3
07

Brown, Ivor,
511
;
L: 215, 391;
L: to
Dr Thomas Jones, 242;
217
, 249, 25
3, 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: 44
3, 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

Café 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

Caröe, E.A., 7, 8,
8

Carpenter, Edward,
66

Carr, Mrs., 16,
18

Casablanca, 117, 118, 119, 124, 138, 158, 1
61, 166

Casteret, Norbert, 392

Catalan, 93, 106

catapult, Orwell’s skill with, 345

Cayenne, 11

censorship, 79, 100, 20
6, 210, 265, 294, 297, 299

Censorship Office (Whitehall), 116,
188
, 192

chaining German prisoners, 208, 209

Challaye, Félicien,
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, 2
4,
47

Ciliga, Anton, 355,
356

Cinderella,
45
, 338

circumcision, 337

Civil Guards, 106

Clarke, Roger, 11

class–breaking, 60

Clé
,
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
,
34
0, 342, 344,
345
, 399, 405,
413
, 48
4

absence of semi-colons, 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, 1
03–4;

loan, 482

xiv, 103,
104
,
105
,
121–2, 12
8,
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, 10
6, 181, 304, 491, 492

concentration camps,
120, 2
51, 265, 291, 354–5, 464

looming, 1
02, 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, 36
3, 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