Eileen Maud Blair was the first wife of George Orwell. During World War II, she worked for the Censorship Department of the Ministry of Information in London and the Ministry of Food.
The home in Hampstead has a blue plaque
Eric Arthur Blair was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and support of democratic socialism.
Press card portrait, 1943
Orwell's birthplace in Motihari, Bihar, India
Blair family home at Shiplake, Oxfordshire
Blair's time at St. Cyprian's inspired his essay "Such, Such Were the Joys".