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The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell Book

Paperback. Pub Date: 2003 Pages: 208 Publisher: Penguin should be compulsory reading' - The Times George Orwell's second wife was portrayed by many of her husband's biographers as A manipulative gold-digger who would stop at nothing to keep control of his legacy. But the truth about Sonia Orwell - the model for Julia in nineteen eighty-four - was altogether different. Beautiful. intelligent and fiercely idealistic. she lived at the heart of London's literary and artistic scene before her marriage to Orwell changed her life for ever. Burdened with the almost impossible task of protecting Orwell's estate. Sonia's loyalty to her late husband ought her nothing but poverty and despair.Read More

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    Beautiful and intelligent, Sonia Orwell - the model for Julia in 1984 - lived at the heart of London's literary and artistic scene before her marriage to George Orwell changed her life for ever. Burdened with the almost impossible task of protecting Orwell's estate, Sonia's loyalty to her late husband brought her nothing but poverty and despair.

  • Penguin

    George Orwell's second wife was portrayed by many of her husband's biographers as a manipulative gold-digger who would stop at nothing to keep control of his legacy. But the truth about Sonia Orwell - the model for Julia in Nineteen Eighty-Four - was altogether different.

  • 0141008172
  • 9780141008172
  • Hilary Spurling
  • 5 June 2003
  • Penguin
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 208
  • New Ed
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