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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

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.

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

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.

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.