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31 de may. de 2024 · En 1936 se casó con su primera esposa, Eileen O’Shaughnessy, con quien tuvo un matrimonio abierto (en el que ambos se relacionaron con otras personas) y con quien adoptó a a un hijo, Richard Horatio Blair.
18 de may. de 2024 · Eileen O’Shaughnessy married Orwell in 1936. O’Shaughnessy was a writer herself, and her literary brilliance not only shaped Orwell’s work, but her practical common sense saved his life. But why and how, Funder wondered, was she written out of their story?
Hace 2 días · Two books about Orwell's relationship with his first wife, Eileen O'Shaughnessy, and her role in his life and career, have been published: Eileen: The Making of George Orwell by Sylvia Topp (2020) and Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder (2023). In her book Funder claims that Orwell was misogynistic and sadistic.
Hace 2 días · The writer died three months later at age 46. Blair, whom Orwell had adopted with his first wife, Eileen O’Shaughnessy, shortly before her death in 1945, was 5 years old at the time.
20 de may. de 2024 · It tells the story of Eileen O’Shaughnessy, often to date in history referred to only as author George Orwell’s ‘first wife’. In an imaginatively constructed melee of historical research, fictional narrative (though based on the research), and personal memoir/reflection, Anna Funder brings to life a woman who played a very ...
12 de may. de 2024 · That mission is to examine the notion of “wifedom”, and the way patriarchy works to construct it, through the example of the invisible – or, as Funder also calls it, erased – life of George Orwell’s wife, Eileen O’Shaughnessy.
Hace 6 días · Authors Anna Funder and Sandra Newman discuss George Orwell, and highlight the women forgotten in his life and his work. Funder’s Wifedom is a non-fiction book about Orwell’s first wife, Eileen O’Shaughnessy, whose literary brilliance shaped Orwell’s work.
