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Wifedom by Anna Funder audiobook review – the first Mrs Orwell

The Australian writer explores the Nineteen Eighty-Four author’s treatment of women in an empathetic biography of his first wife, Eileen O’Shaughnessy

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The top 20 books of 2023 as chosen by the Australian Financial Review team, including fiction, non-fiction, art and design, and cookbooks

From cookbooks and design tomes to literary page-turners to savour, with subjects that include living longer, garden design and a fallen crypto king.

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Colin Burrow · Ah, that s better: Orwell s Anti-Radicalism · LRB 5 October 2023

Colin Burrow · Ah, that s better: Orwell s Anti-Radicalism · LRB 5 October 2023
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Book Review: Orwell, by D J Taylor, and Wifedom, by Anna Funder

A biography of George Orwell questions his saintly image, while a new book about his first wife, Eileen O’Shaughnessy, rescues her from invisibility.

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Who was George Orwell s wife, Eileen Blair?

Eileen was born in South Shields and, being an excellent student, got a scholarship to study English at Oxford, where one of her tutors was JRR Tolkien.

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