George Orwell

George Orwell ( Eric Arthur Blair )

Timelines

1903                born in India
1904                moved back to England
1911                went to St Cyprian’s School in Eastbourne
1917                won a scholarship to Eton
1921                joined the British police in Burma
1927                resigned the British police
1928                journeyed to Paris
1932 ~ 1933   worked as a teacher
1933               published his first book ‘Down and Out in Paris and London’
1934.              got a part time job in a second hand bookshop
                       published his first novel ‘Burmese Days’
1935.              published ‘A Clergyman’s Daughter’
1936.              published ‘Keep the Aspidistra Flying’
                       married Eileen
                       left for Spain to fight in the Spanish Civil War
1937.              published ‘The Road to Wigan Pier’
1938.              published ‘A Homage to Catalonia’
                       was suffering from tuberculosis
1938 ~ 1939.  spent winter in Morocco
1939.              published ‘Up For Air’
1941 ~ 1943.  worked for the BBC
1943.              became literary editor for the Tribune a left wing magazine
1945.              published ‘Animal Farm’ - his great satire
1949.              published ‘1984’
                       married his second wife Sonia
1950.              died on 21 Jan


Turning Points

He moved to England when he was one year old.
He joined the British police in Burma in 1921.
He began living among the poor from 1927.
He was commissioned to write a book about poverty in northern England in 1936.

Achievements

He was a successful and well-known writer.