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If anyone would like to know more about Eileen O'Shaughnessy Blair (George Orwell's wife and Richard Blair's mother), please read my biography of her, called Eileen: The Making of George Orwell.

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Sylvia Topp

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Thank you Sylvia - we've updated the piece to include a direct reference to the biography!

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Thank you. I appreciate that change very much.

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I would like to read your book; so often we'll known make writers have been inspired, emotionally supported by their wife or female partner eg James Joyce and Norah Barnacle ( wonderful name) and also about F Scott Fitzgerald's cruel treatment if his wife who apparently was a superb writer.

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