"1942, have survived (they are reproduced in ""War Broadcasts""). He was also asked to provide an essay about British cooking along with recipes for ""The British Council"". Orwell kept a diary which has been published by his widow—Sonia Brownell—and academic Peter Davison, in addition to his private correspondence. George Orwell bibliography The bibliography of George Orwell includes journalism, essays, novels and non-fiction books written by the British writer Eric Blair (1903–50), either under his own name or, more usually, under his pen name George Orwell. Orwell was a prolific writer on topics related to contemporary English society and literary criticism,"
"of Eric Blair in the community who seeks out and meets Burris, confessing his true identity as George Orwell. Blair seeks out Frazier as the 'leader' and the two have discussions which comprise the essay. Blair was impressed by Walden Two's ""lack of any institutionalized government, religion, or economic system"", a state of affairs that embodied ""the dream of nineteenth-century anarchism"". Many efforts to create a Walden Two in real life are detailed in Hilke Kuhlmann's ""Living Walden Two"" and in Daniel W. Bjork's ""B.F. Skinner"". Some of these efforts include: Twin Oaks is detailed in Kat Kinkade's book, ""A"
"and ""Homage to Catalonia"" (1938), an account of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, are widely acclaimed, as are his essays on politics, literature, language and culture. In 2008, ""The Times"" ranked him second on a list of ""The 50 greatest British writers since 1945"". Orwell's work continues to influence popular and political culture and the term ""Orwellian""—descriptive of totalitarian or authoritarian social practices—has entered the language together with many of his neologisms, including ""Big Brother"", ""Thought Police"", ""Room 101"", ""memory hole"", ""newspeak"", ""doublethink"", ""proles"", ""unperson"" and ""thoughtcrime"". Eric Arthur Blair was born on 25 June 1903 in Motihari,"
"Arthur & George Arthur & George (2005) is the tenth novel by English author Julian Barnes which takes as its basis the true story of the ""Great Wyrley Outrages"". Set at the turn of the 20th century, the story follows the separate but intersecting lives of two very different British men: a half-Indian solicitor and son of a Vicar, George Edalji, and the world-famous author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Roughly one-third of the book traces the story of Edalji's trial, conviction, and imprisonment for a crime he did not commit. About one-third of the book"
"three-part television series ""Arthur & George"" based on Arthur & George, starring Martin Clunes as Arthur Conan Doyle. Arthur & George Arthur & George (2005) is the tenth novel by English author Julian Barnes which takes as its basis the true story of the ""Great Wyrley Outrages"". Set at the turn of the 20th century, the story follows the separate but intersecting lives of two very different British men: a half-Indian solicitor and son of a Vicar, George Edalji, and the world-famous author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Roughly one-third of the book traces the story"
"published in 1974. Buddicom was born at Plymouth to Robert Arthur Buddicom, of that family of Ticklerton Court, Church Stretton, Shropshire, which property he inherited on his father's death in 1922, and his wife Laura Lucie (née Finlay). The family moved to Shiplake, Oxfordshire, where she first met Eric Blair in the summer of 1914 when he was standing on his head in a field at the bottom of the Buddicoms' garden. When asked why, he replied, ""You are noticed more if you stand on your head than if you are the right way up."" From that summer afternoon, Eric"
"George Egerton Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright (14 December 1859 – 12 August 1945), better known by her pen name George Egerton (pronounced Edg'er-ton), was a writer better known for her short stories, noted for her psychological probing, innovative narrative techniques, and outspokenness about women's need for freedom, including sexual freedom. Egerton is widely considered to be one of the most important writers in the late nineteenth century New Woman movement, and a key exponent of early modernism in English-language literature. Born in Melbourne, she spent her childhood in Ireland, where she settled for a time, and considered herself to be"
"2011. Blair was married to the television producer and author Jane Blanchard. The couple lived in Torquay in Devon. Blair is survived by two sons from a previous marriage. Iain Blair Iain Blair (12 August 1942 – 3 July 2011) was a Scottish actor and author who, using the pen name Emma Blair wrote a series of romantic novels. Blair was born in Glasgow and spent the first few years of his life there. His father died shortly after his birth, and following the death of his mother, when Blair was aged eleven, he moved to the United States to"
"the Campbells gradually sold the island as a number of separate estates, and the Campbell connection with Jura ended in 1938 with the sale of Jura House and its surrounding Ardfin Estate. In his later life, George Orwell moved to Barnhill, on Jura, living there intermittently from 1946, while critically ill with tuberculosis, until his death in January 1950. He was known to the residents of Jura by his real name, Eric Blair. It was at Barnhill that Orwell finished ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"", during 1947–48; he sent the final typescript to his publishers, Secker and Warburg, on 4 December 1948, and"
"material about Blair's and Buddicom's relationship in a most revealing postscript. Buddicom lived with her sister for many years. She designed two Shropshire houses, and two motor-caravans for which she won prizes. She wrote a book of poetry published in America, and her ""Cat Poems"" were published in 1972, two years before ""Eric & Us"" appeared. Jacintha Buddicom Jacintha Laura May Buddicom (10 May 1901 – 4 November 1993) was a poet and a childhood friend of George Orwell (Eric Blair). She met Blair in 1914 and they developed a shared interest in poetry, but she lost touch with him"
"Eric had two sisters: Marjorie, five years older; and Avril, five years younger. When Eric was one year old, his mother took him and his sisters to England. His birthplace and ancestral house in Motihari has been declared a protected monument of historical importance. In 1904, Ida Blair settled with her children at Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire. Eric was brought up in the company of his mother and sisters, and apart from a brief visit in mid-1907, the family did not see their husband or father Richard Blair until 1912. His mother's diary from 1905 describes a lively round of social"
"Michigan and McGill University. He taught philosophy at the University of Windsor from 1967 until 2006, serving two terms as the head of that department. He is currently professor emeritus at the University of Windsor. Blair's publications have focused on argumentation theory, critical thinking, informal logic, and visual argumentation. J. Anthony Blair John Anthony Blair (born 12 August 1941) is a Canadian philosopher, born in Ottawa, Ontario. Along with his colleague Ralph Johnson, he has been credited as one of the founding members of the informal logic movement in North America. The two co-published one of the movement's most influential"
"Iain Blair Iain Blair (12 August 1942 – 3 July 2011) was a Scottish actor and author who, using the pen name Emma Blair wrote a series of romantic novels. Blair was born in Glasgow and spent the first few years of his life there. His father died shortly after his birth, and following the death of his mother, when Blair was aged eleven, he moved to the United States to live with an aunt. He wanted to return to Scotland, however, and got a part-time job at age fifteen to save up for his fare home. After graduating a"
"Leo Blair Leo Charles Lynton Blair (born Charles Leonard Augustus Parsons; 4 August 192316 November 2012) was a British barrister and law lecturer at Durham University. He was the author of the book ""The Commonwealth Public Service"". He was the father of Tony Blair, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and of Sir William Blair, a High Court judge. Born Charles Leonard Augustus Parsons in Filey, Yorkshire, England, he was the illegitimate son of two middle class travelling entertainers. His father Charles Parsons (16 July 1887 – 19 January 1970) had the stage name Jimmy Lynton while his"
"Alexander Blair (writer) Alexander Blair (1782–1878) was an English writer and academic. Considered as an original thinker, he is also described as ""disorganised, despondent and a ditherer"". He is known as a friend of Christopher North. He was the son of Alexander Blair (1737–c.1816), a manufacturer and merchant in the Birmingham area, and brother of Mary Margaret Busk (1779–1863). His mother was Mary Johnson. The elder Alexander Blair was an army officer, who in 1780 went into partnership with James Keir at Tipton. They made alloy window sashes, and alkali, and the venture became a successful soap manufacturer. The business"
"Award. That year also saw the publication of his children's novel ""Big George"". This has been followed by two sequels ""Big George and the Seventh Knight"" and ""Big George and the Winter King"". The ""Big George"" books are a retelling of the Saint George and the Dragon myth with a science fiction twist. Eric Pringle Eric Pringle (4 May 1935, Morpeth, Northumberland, England – 13 April 2017, Ledbury, Herefordshire) was a British writer for radio and television. He also wrote three novels for children. He was one of the writers of the 1972 television series ""Pretenders"", and of the 1974"
"Miles"", ""George Orwell"", and ""H. Lewis Allways"". He finally adopted the ""nom de plume"" George Orwell because ""It is a good round English name."" ""Down and Out in Paris and London"" was published on 9 January 1933 as Orwell continued to work on ""Burmese Days"". ""Down and Out"" was modestly successful and was next published by Harper & Brothers in New York. In mid-1933 Blair left Hawthorns to become a teacher at Frays College, in Uxbridge, Middlesex. This was a much larger establishment with 200 pupils and a full complement of staff. He acquired a motorcycle and took trips through"
"George A. Blair George Alfred Blair (January 22, 1915 – October 17, 2013) was an American businessman, entrepreneur, and waterskier, known for his barefoot waterskiing and trademark yellow ""banana""-like wetsuits. Blair was born on January 22, 1915, in Toledo, Ohio to Roy Robert and Georgia Gotshall Blair. He enrolled at Miami University, where he was a member of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity. He graduated in 1937. With the Great Depression having taken its toll on the family finances, Blair often hopped a freight train to get back and forth to college. On one fateful trip aboard a freight train, Blair"
"Eric Temple Bell Eric Temple Bell (February 7, 1883 – December 21, 1960) was a Scottish-born mathematician and science fiction writer who lived in the United States for most of his life. He published non-fiction using his given name and fiction as John Taine. Bell was born in Peterhead, Aberdeen, Scotland, but his father, a factor, relocated to San Jose, California in 1884, when he was fifteen months old. The family returned to Bedford, England after his father's death, on January 4, 1896. Bell returned to the United States by way of Montreal in 1902. Bell was educated at Bedford"
"in November 1932, regarding the future publication of ""Down and Out in Paris and London"", that Eric Blair first came up with the pseudonym ""George Orwell"". According to the historian Daniel J. Leab, some 500 of Orwell's letters to his agent have survived, of which nearly 100 were acquired by the Lilly Library in 1959. Leonard Moore (literary agent) Leonard Parker Moore (died January 1959) was a literary agent. A partner of Christy & Moore and of the Lecture Agency, Ltd., his clients included George Orwell (from 1932 to 1950), Gordon Campbell, Mary Butts, Georgette Heyer (for nearly 30 years"
"George and Rue George and Rue ( / ) is a novel by George Elliott Clarke, published in 2005 by HarperCollins Canada. The novel is based on the true story of George and Rufus Hamilton, two Black Canadian brothers who murdered a taxicab driver in Barker's Point, New Brunswick in 1949. Later the same year, both of the brothers were convicted of murder and executed. Clarke, whose mother was the Hamilton brothers' cousin, uses a mixture of historical record and creativity to imagine the brothers' lives and to seek understanding of what led them to commit murder. Clarke's earlier poetry"
"water, in the classroom, and in serving as an ambassador for the sport. The scholarship continues Blair's well-established legacy as a generous supporter of the sport. George A. Blair George Alfred Blair (January 22, 1915 – October 17, 2013) was an American businessman, entrepreneur, and waterskier, known for his barefoot waterskiing and trademark yellow ""banana""-like wetsuits. Blair was born on January 22, 1915, in Toledo, Ohio to Roy Robert and Georgia Gotshall Blair. He enrolled at Miami University, where he was a member of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity. He graduated in 1937. With the Great Depression having taken its toll"
"George Young Blair George Young Blair (1826 Drumrauch near Dundee – Drumrauch Hall 22 September 1894) was a Scottish marine engineer, who specialised in the building of triple expansion engines at his factory ""Blair & Co., Ltd."" in Stockton-on-Tees. In 1855 George Blair was appointed manager of Fossick & Hackworth, becoming a partner in 1865. The firm was renamed Fossick, Blair & Co. on Hackworth's retirement, and when Fossick died in 1866 it became Blair & Co. Blair's management led to the firm's specialising in marine engines. The 700 employees grew to 2 000, and the works covered seven and"
"Clay Blair Clay Blair Jr. (May 1, 1925 – December 16, 1998) was an American historian, best known for his books on military history. He served on the fleet submarine ""Guardfish"" (SS-217) in World War II and later wrote for ""Time"" and ""Life"" magazines before becoming editor-in-chief of ""The Saturday Evening Post."" He assisted General Omar Bradley in the writing of his autobiography, ""A General's Life"" (1983), published after the general's death. Blair wrote two dozen history books and hundreds of magazine articles that reached a popular audience. His last book was ""Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunted, 1942–1945"" (1998), which"
"Eric Cross (writer) Eric Cross (1905 – 1980) was an Irish writer. Born in Newry, County Down, he published ""The Tailor and Ansty"", in ""The Bell"" in 1942. This was a collection of stories and sayings from an old country tailor called Timothy Buckley and his wife Anastasia that Cross had recorded, with a foreword by Frank O'Connor. The book was banned by Censorship Board a short time after, during the government of Éamon de Valera. Some neighbours were furious and Buckley was forced by three priests to go on his knees and burn the book in his own fireplace."
"Annals of the Twenty-Ninth Century Annals of the Twenty-Ninth Century: or, The Autobiography of the Tenth President of the World-Republic is a science fiction novel written by Andrew Blair, and published anonymously in 1874. Blair's work is one of a group of early science fiction novels that are now little known, but were influential in their own time—group that includes Edward Maitland's ""By and By"" (1873), Percy Greg's ""Across the Zodiac"" (1880), and John Jacob Astor IV's ""A Journey in Other Worlds"" (1894). Blair tells an extravagant tale of a future age in which the peoples of the Earth have"
"Barry Blair Barry Blair (1954 – January 3, 2010) was a Canadian comics publisher, artist and writer, known for launching Aircel Comics (publisher of titles such as ""Samurai"", ""Elflord"", ""Dragonforce"", and ""Men in Black"") in the 1980s. From early on, Blair's art style was influenced by the comics he had seen living in East Asia, at a time when manga and other Asian comics were largely unknown in North America. His art was typically characterized by childlike figures, and included nudity and partial nudity. This continued into the erotica which became his main focus later in his career, and these"
"Kemp, Robert and Christopher. Clay Blair Clay Blair Jr. (May 1, 1925 – December 16, 1998) was an American historian, best known for his books on military history. He served on the fleet submarine ""Guardfish"" (SS-217) in World War II and later wrote for ""Time"" and ""Life"" magazines before becoming editor-in-chief of ""The Saturday Evening Post."" He assisted General Omar Bradley in the writing of his autobiography, ""A General's Life"" (1983), published after the general's death. Blair wrote two dozen history books and hundreds of magazine articles that reached a popular audience. His last book was ""Hitler's U-Boat War: The"
"affair, and gave the baby away for a childless aunt to adopt. When Blair, who never knew of Buddicom's daughter, came back from Burma on leave that year, he assumed that she was away from the Buddicom family home because she was angry with him and they did not make contact again. She then began a 30-year affair with a peer of the Realm. It was not until 1949, a few months before Orwell’s death, that Buddicom realised that George Orwell, the author of ""Animal Farm"", was her childhood friend Eric Blair. They exchanged a few letters and phone conversations"
"Jacintha Buddicom Jacintha Laura May Buddicom (10 May 1901 – 4 November 1993) was a poet and a childhood friend of George Orwell (Eric Blair). She met Blair in 1914 and they developed a shared interest in poetry, but she lost touch with him after he departed for Burma in 1922, and later she disputed Blair's writings about his own childhood. She considered it “impertinent” of Orwell to have volunteered in the Spanish Civil War. The two were in contact again near the end of Blair's life. She gave an account of the relationship in her memoir ""Eric & Us"","
"was originally unmarked, but a memorial was erected on the south-west section of Greyfriars Kirk to commemorate him, lying between tablets to Allan Ramsay and Colin MacLaurin. It is inscribed in Latin therefore gives his name as Hugo Blair. He was succeeded in his chair at Edinburgh University by Andrew Brown (1763-1834). Blair is best known for the publication of three major works: ""A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian, Son of Fingal""; ""Sermons""; and ""Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres"". While little attention is given to his other works, Blair published several other works anonymously, the most important"
"Eric Rücker Eddison Eric Rücker Eddison, CB, CMG (24 November 1882 – 18 August 1945) was an English civil servant and author, writing epic fantasy novels under the name E. R. Eddison. His notable works include ""The Worm Ouroboros"" (1922) and the Zimiamvian Trilogy (1935–1958). Born in Adel, Leeds, Eddison's early education came from a series of private tutors, whom he shared with the young Arthur Ransome. Ransome recalls Eddison's daring and Machiavellian methods of getting rid of unpopular teachers in his autobiography. Afterwards Eddison was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Oxford and joined the Board of Trade in"
"shooting, fishing and birdwatching with Jacintha's brother and sister. At the age of five, Eric was sent as a day-boy to a convent school in Henley-on-Thames, which Marjorie also attended. It was a Roman Catholic convent run by French Ursuline nuns, who had been exiled from France after religious education was banned in 1903. His mother wanted him to have a public school education, but his family could not afford the fees, and he needed to earn a scholarship. Ida Blair's brother Charles Limouzin recommended St Cyprian's School, Eastbourne, East Sussex. Limouzin, who was a proficient golfer, knew of the"