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	Remembering George Orwell Guardian 19 may 2002
		Sonia Brownell was born in Calcutta in 1918.
		Sonia was sent to the Sacred Heart Convent in Roehampton: she loathed it - so much so that in later life she spat if she passed a nun in the street - and if her Catholic education instilled habits of loyalty and service to others, it also exacerbated feelings of guilt and inadequacy.
		Sonia repelled Connolly's advances, after which he spread rumours that she was a suppressed lesbian: but although she leapt into bed with an army of male admirers, sex probably came a poor second to her adulation of writers, and her longing to serve them.
	home.planet.nl /~boe00905/OrwellGuardian190502.html (1194 words)

	SONIA ORWELL
		Sonia was one of those clever, undereducated, self-doubting women of the 20th century who made her way by fast and accurate typing for clever men.
		Sonia, who had died round about the time Crick was published, had maintained that the four-volume The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, which she had edited with Ian Angus and published in 1968, was all that was needed.
		Sonia Brownell was born in India on August 18, 1918 and died, penniless in London, at the end of 1980.
	www.arlindo-correia.com /180702.html (16530 words)

	Sonia Brownell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Brownell already had, when she agreed to marry the aged, ill Orwell, the glamor and charisma of a young Susan Sontag.
		Sonia later married the homosexual Michael Pitt Rivers and had affairs with several British painters, including Lucian Freud, William Coldstream and Victor Pasmore.
		Sonia was also the lover of french philosopher Maurice Merleau Ponty, who she described as her true love; she hoped he would leave his wife for her.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sonia_Brownell (478 words)

	Sonia Brownell - Charles' George Orwell Links
		Sonia Brownell (1918-1980) was the second and last wife of writer George Orwell.
		She was also known as Sonia Blair or Sonia Orwell.
		In later life she often went by the name Sonia Orwell; however, this was never legally her name as 'Orwell' was merely a pseudonym her husband had chosen for himself (his legal name was Eric Arthur Blair).
	www.netcharles.com /orwell/articles/col-soniabrownell.htm (233 words)

	A Portrait of Sonia Orwell - smh.com.au
		She emerges, however, as an intelligent, generous woman whose marriage of convenience to the dying Orwell was consistent with her lifelong idealisation of creativity.
		Sonia believed that she could save George's life by taking him to Switzerland, where his tuberculosis might be cured.
		In this biography, Sonia's friends speak for her, and they give persuasive testimony to her courage and generosity, her blend of naivete and toughness, her incompetence in money matters.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/08/16/1029114007115.html (754 words)

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		Brownell was trespassing on traditionally masculine critical and intellectual preserves."Both Connolly and Watson, who were frequently absent from the day-to-day running of the magazine, relied heavily on her judgment.
		Sonia Brownell also became the inspiration for Julia (the girl from the Fiction Department), the tempestuous heroine of the novel.
		It was clear that Sonia Orwell, who was now dying of a brain tumor, would not likely survive long enough to go to trial, so her lawyers reached a settlement.
	www.washingtonmonthly.com /features/2001/0307.kglastris.m4 (1194 words)

	Sonia Brownell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sonia Brownell was the last wife of author George Orwell.
		Following the death of his first wife Eileen, Orwell became desperately lonely, and in his loneliness he married Sonia at the very end of his life.
		Some commentators have argued that she helped Orwell through the painful last months of his life and gave him a hitherto unknown sense of joy.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/s/so/sonia_brownell.html (137 words)

	The Girl From the Fiction Department by Hilary Spurling: ThePost.ie
		Sonia was recovering from the disintegration of a tempestuous love affair with Jean Paul Sartre's rival, the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
		She makes a valiant effort to wrest Sonia's reputation from the grasp of those who denigrated her as mercenary and self-serving, who cast aspersions on her lifestyle and ability to manage such a heavyweight literary legacy.
		Sonia's social and professional scene was rife with jealousy and backstabbing.
	archives.tcm.ie /businesspost/2002/05/12/story302638628.asp (832 words)

	The merry widow - theage.com.au
		And yet that is the latest spin from her surviving chums, who fear that history will record that Sonia Orwell, as she insisted on calling herself, was not the ideal wife to a great writer celebrated for his extraordinary integrity and modesty.
		That assertion is ridiculous, as is the notion that somehow Sonia was entitled to call herself ``Mrs Orwell'' and spend the rest of her life playing the ``literary widow'' after a short marriage to a man in whose company she spent very little time.
		To her credit, Sonia was also a strong defender of Orwell's reputation and gave it an enormous boost through her preparation of a four-volume collection of his essays and letters, published in 1968.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/07/15/1026185150750.html (2102 words)

	The widow Orwell - Book Review: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell - Book Review Washington Monthly - Find Articles
		Spurling paints a picture of an engaging and complicated woman who despite her verve, her loyalty, generosity, and intelligence, her passion for art and literature, was huge !y insecure, convinced she was fundamentally unworthy.
		Brownell started her own literary career as a mostly unpaid business manager of Horizon, a literary and art review founded in 1940 by the brilliant Cyril Connolly (who'd known George Orwell at Eton) and his friend Peter Watson.
		When Sonia Brownell met George Orwell in the early 1940s at a dinner party at Cyril Connolly's house, she was firmly ensconced as an editor at Horizon, and he was a star columnist for Tribune and a contributor to Horizon.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1316/is_7-8_35/ai_106096931 (831 words)

	7.Sonia and Hospital
		After leaving the Elysee restaurant Zoe and I crossed the road to number 18 Percy Street which was the apartment of Sonia Brownell, Orwell's second wife.
		Sonia was Connolly's office and editorial assisstant and very beautiful.
		One of the people he invited over was Sonia who loved him very much but only as a friend, as was the case with a couple of other beautiful and intelligent women he proposed to in the first year after Eileen's death.
	www.orwelltoday.com /soniaflat.shtml (1757 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Girl from the Fiction Department: Livres en anglais: Hilary Spurling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sonia Brownell (1918-1980) married George Orwell in 1949 because he said it would help him recover his health.
		Now her good friend Spurling, a highly regarded biographer, seeks to set the record straight with a portrait that emphasizes Sonia's vitality, generosity, kindness and support of writers like Jean Rhys, who were much in need of it.
		Though Spurling treads lightly over the more intimate aspects of Sonia's life and two marriages, she does remind readers that Sonia was more than just Orwell's relict; she was closely involved in the lives and careers of many of the most influential British, French and American artists and writers of the mid-20th century.
	www.amazon.fr /Girl-Fiction-Department-Hilary-Spurling/dp/0241141656 (464 words)

	Orwell's widow gets her due? - The Washington Times: Non-Fiction Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		George Orwell and Sonia Brownell had married only three months before, literally on his deathbed or at least in the room at University College Hospital in London which he was never to leave alive.
		Spurling on correcting what she sees as the misimpression of Sonia Orwell in the various biographies that have appeared over the past quarter century that she has herself produced another skewed portrait — only this time hopelessly biased in favor of someone who was obviously a generous and beloved friend.
		As much as 100,000 pounds a year was rolling in from Orwell's royalties by the 1970s and although it was true that his widow never saw as much as a tenth of that sum as her annual income, her generosity seems to have been quixotic and used to further her, rather than his, literary aims.
	www.washingtontimes.com /books/20030719-101320-9671r.htm (1241 words)

	TAP: Vol 11, Iss. 22. The Wintry Orwell. Alexander C. Kafka. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		She went so far as to hide evidence that Orwell, as a boy, disliked a night he had to spend in the rough.
		Brownell apparently thought it would mar Orwell's later reputation as the noble, socialist hobo.
		Brownell died in 1980 at age 62 a "blowsy drunk," Meyers writes savagely.
	www.prospect.org /print/V11/22/kafka-a.html (2722 words)

	Existential Primer: Maurice Merleau-Ponty
		George Orwell was a bed-ridden invalid when he proposed to and married Sonia.
		“Jilted” by Merleau-Ponty, Sonia accepted a proposal from Orwell, for whom she had been a babysitter and typist.
		Sonia apparently attracted scandal, since her second husband had been a defendant in a trial for homosexuality.
	www.tameri.com /csw/exist/merleau.shtml (933 words)

	GEORGE ORWELL
		Come to think of it, his second wife, Sonia Brownell, was known as "Buttocks Brownell".
		In his near-death agony he proposed successfully to Sonia Brownell who, difficult as she was, could not be described as shallow or vapid.
		This deserves to be entered on the credit side of the account even if, as we have learned, the dying Orwell sometimes suggested to women that they might be tempted by the lifetime sinecure of "writer's widow".
	www.arlindo-correia.com /george_orwell.html (4880 words)

	Camden New Journal
		Sonia Brownell, Orwell’s second wife, about whom he was reported to be ‘nuts’
		Bowker’s description is very much pulsating at times, even when describing Orwell’s comforting but poverty striken early married life running the village shop in Wallington, Hertfordshire, while digging his own vegetable garden to stave off hunger.
		Orwell was a victim of the money God he so hated, as I know for a fact from the late Tosco Fyvel, the last friend to see him alive, and as is inferred in Hilary Spurling’s admirable recent biography of Sonia Orwell.
	www.camdennewjournal.co.uk /archive/r190603_5.htm (1685 words)

	Public Address \| Island Life
		He proposed to several women thereafter, sometimes suggesting, as an inducement, that he would probably die soon and leave his widow with a valuable estate; but he struck out.
		Then, in 1949, when he really was on his deathbed, he married Sonia Brownell, a woman whose sex appeal was widely appreciated.
		Brownell had slept with Orwell once, in 1945, apparently from the mixed motives of pity and the desire to sleep with famous writers, one of her hobbies.
	www.publicaddress.net /default,islandlife.sm (4536 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell: Livres en anglais: Hilary Spurling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Amazon.fr : The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell: Livres en anglais: Hilary Spurling
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		The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell (Broché)
	www.amazon.fr /Girl-Fiction-Department-Portrait-Orwell/dp/1582432449 (487 words)

	'Orwell: The Life' by D.J. Taylor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Three years ago in "Orwell: Wintry Conscience of a Generation," Jeffrey Meyers emphasized Orwell's dark vision of the world and twisted, guilt-ridden, masochistic personality.
		In 1991's "Orwell: The Authorized Biography," Michael Shelden flened the character of Sonia Brownell Orwell, the woman he married almost on his deathbed (and to whose rescue Hilary Spurling rode in her "The Girl From the Fiction Department" earlier this year).
		Taylor's work, in a sense, comes full circle to Bernard Crick's 1980 biography, the first complete one, in that it is not organized on any particular thesis or principle and does not have significant axes to grind (though he does attempt to dull axes wielded by others).
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/20030817orwell0817p4.asp (666 words)

	GEORGE ORWELL/ JAMES BALDWIN
		He attributed her death to lowered physical resistance due to the war; both she and Orwell had consistently given up a part of their wartime food rations to feed children, and consequently had impaired their health.
		In 1949 he married Sonia Brownell, who assisted him in taking care of his adopted son.
		Orwell's two best-known books reflect his lifelong distrust of autocratic government, whether of the left or right: Animal Farm (1945), a moder beast-fable attacking Stalinism, and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), a dystopian novel setting forth his fears of an intrusively bureaucratized state of the future.
	www.sheftman.com /ewrt1a/orwell/index.html (1426 words)

	thePeerage.com - Margaret Audrey White and others
		He and Sonia Brownell were divorced in 1965.
		Sonia Brownell married Michael Augustus Fox-Pitt-Rivers, son of Captain George Henry Lane Fox-Pitt-Rivers and Hon.
		She and Michael Augustus Fox-Pitt-Rivers were divorced in 1965.
	www.thepeerage.com /p6854.htm (725 words)

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