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

Hilary Spurling

This is a sympathetic portrait of Sonia Orwell. It emphasises her life as a person rather than just as George Orwell’s widow. She was an important figure in the English publishing world of the 1930s and championed writers and artists like Mary McCarthy and Francis Bacon. She has been less kindly dealt with by other biographers who have portrayed her as an opportunist.
Christine 24/4/05

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