the marriage of George Orwell and Sonia Brownell lasted only a few months because of the poor health of Orwell. Here is information on how they met and their wedding
Born:
George Orwell aka Eric Arthur Blair .: June 25, 103 Motihari, India
Sonia Brownell .: August 25, 1918 in Ranchi in the province of Bihar in India
Mort:
George January 21, 1950 in London, England tuberculosis at the age of 46 years George was buried in the churchyard of All Saints in Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, England
Sonia .: 11 December 1980 with a brain tumor. Sonia was buried in Putney Vale Cemetery
How Sonia and George Met :.
"Sonia Orwell had first met at dinner with Cyril [Connolly] during its initial passage in Horizon in 1940 or 1941 when she met again after the war, he was a widower struggling with incipient tuberculosis and the treatment of a young adopted son. "
Hilary Spurling. The Girl From the Department of fiction. A portrait of Sonia Orwell pg 02.
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[ wedding date and info:
Sonia and George were married October 13, 1949 at his bedside in hospital University College. Rev. brain vicar of St Pancras officiated. Two months later, George died.
"Visitors to bed that fall all agreed that Sonia (as Julia) brought warmth and comfort to the last months of the life of her lover."
Hilary Spurling. The Girl From the Department of fiction. A portrait of Sonia Orwell 02. pg. 96.
Occupations
George :. Novelist, essayist, radio journalist, journalist, teacher, corrrespondent war, theater and film critic
Sonia. administrative assistant, writer
Other marriages:
first marriage of George Orwell was to Eileen O'Shaughnessy in 1936. Eileen and George Orwell marriage Profile
second marriage Sonia Orwell was Michael Pitt Rivers. Sonia and Michael were married August 12, 1958 the Office of Kensington registry. Michael and Sonia divorced in 1965.
Quotes on Marriage Sonia Brownell and George Orwell:
Sonia: "When George married me he knew exactly he was taking on. he knew I'd be downstairs knocking back the wine, but he knew that at the right time I appear with delicious food and he'd be there in the Striped Pajamas. "But she also said that" The reasons why George married me are clear, why I married him are not clear "
. Source: Gordon Bowker Inside George Orwell. A Biography pgs 403-404, 03. [
Hilary Spurling "When Orwell reached in the end, he found a smooth meeting and strength in her [Sonia] the pact between them grew from mutual honesty, humor and compassion" Son. . marry Orwell had to do with his own deep misery, writes Ian Angus ... "and recognition by an unhappy man she was deeply unhappy."
Hilary Spurling. The Girl From the Department of fiction. A portrait of Sonia Orwell 02. pgs. . 95-96
Frances Partridge: "Many people consider marriage Orwell cynically ... I see primarily as a neurotic, for a marriage to a man bedridden and perhaps dying is as close than. the marriage just as it is possible to obtain "
Source: Gordon Bowker Inside George Orwell :. A Biography 03. pg 409.