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About this Episode
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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