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.
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The Workers' Party of Marxist Unification was a Spanish communist party formed during the Second Republic and mainly active in Catalonia and the Valencian Country around the Spanish Civil War. It was
Eileen Blair
…Civil War in 1937, she volunteered as an English-French typist for the Independent Labour Party leader John McNair while Orwell was fighting with the POUM. When the POUM was declared illegal, she helped her husband escape from Spain. Blair supported Orwell as a typist, collaborator and critic of his works…
A c. 1936 POUM poster appeals to workers: "Obreros ¡A la victoria!" ("Workers: to Victory!").
POUM demonstration on the 19th anniversary of the October Revolution, 1936