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Feb 17, 2023Liked by The Orwell Foundation

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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