Eileen Blair
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Eileen Maud Blair was a British poet and psychologist. She was the first wife of Eric Arthur Blair, commonly known as the English author George Orwell. During the Spanish Civil War in 1937, she volunt
George Orwell’s residence at 77 Parliament Hill, Hampstead
No 2, Kit's Lane, Wallington, Hertfordshire, where the Blairs lived from 1936 to 1940
The Blairs with members of the ILP Contingent on the Aragon Front outside Huesca, 13 March 1937
Senate House, London, where Blair worked at the Ministry of Information, was the model for the Ministry of Truth in Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Richard Blair (patron)
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Richard Horatio Blair is a British trustee and patron who is the adopted son of English author George Orwell.
Eileen Blair
…Lettice Cooper commented, "I find it difficult now to remember her as Eileen". On 14 May 1944, the Blairs adopted a three-week-old boy, whom they named Richard Horatio Blair. David Astor thought they were "renewing their marriage round their new child". In June 1944, their flat in Mortimer Crescent was destroyed by a flying…
Blair in 2021
George Orwell press photo