Bibliograph

Wifedom, Mrs Orwell's invisible life, Anna Funder

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Wifedom, Mrs Orwell's invisible life, Anna Funder

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

portraitsillustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Wifedom

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Anna Funder

Sub title

Mrs Orwell's invisible life

Summary

Looking for wonder and some reprieve from the everyday, Anna Funder slips into the pages of her hero George Orwell. As she watches him create his writing self, she tries to remember her own. When she uncovers his forgotten wife, it's a revelation. Eileen O'Shaughnessy's literary brilliance shaped Orwell's work and her practical common sense saved his life. But why, and how, was she written out of the story? Using newly discovered letters from Eileen to her best friend, Funder recreates the Orwell's marriage, through the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War in London. As she rolls up the screen concealing Orwell's private life she is led to question what it takes to be a writer -- and what it is to be a wife

Target audience

adult

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