• Eileen Blair

  • Mar 20 2024
  • Length: 38 mins
  • Podcast

  • Summary

  • George Orwell has never been accused of being a feminist. And yet his wife Eileen left her mark on his most important works.

    Starring Sally Drexler as Eileen Blair and Nigel Daly as George Orwell

    Also featuring: Ben Partridge, Luke Millington-Drake, Thom Wickes, Amelia Chappelow, and Colin Anderson.

    Source List:

    Eileen: The Making of George Orwell by Sylvia Topp, © 2020

    Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell’s Invisible Life by Anna Funder, © 2023

    Orwell: The Life by D.J. Taylor, © 2003, Published 2015 by Open Road Integrated Media

    Orwell: The New Life by D.J. Taylor, © 2023, Published by Pegasus Books, Ltd

    1984 & Coming Up For Air by George Orwell, © 2021 by True Sign

    1984 & Animal Farm by George Orwell, © 2022, Sanage Publishing

    The Guardian, Looking for Eileen: how George Orwell wrote his wife out of his story

    The New York Times, One Biography Questions Orwell’s Image, and Another Brings His First Wife Into Focus

    New Humanist, Eric, Eileen and Norah

    The American Scholar, Down and Out

    The Guardian, Orwell by DJ Taylor Review - A Very English Socialist

    The Orwell Foundation, Remembering Eileen: An Interview with George Orwell’s Son, Richard Blair

    The New York Times, How ‘Orwellian’ Became an All-Purpose Insult

    Online Etymology Dictionary, Orwellian

    The Sydney Morning Herald, The Mysterious Absence of George Orwell’s First Wife

    The Guardian, Another Piece of the Puzzle

    The Orwell Society, Eileen - and Orwell’s Shifting Attitudes on Gender Issues

    The New Yorker, Honest, Decent, Wrong

    The Article, In Defense of George Orwell

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