George Orwell: A Life in Letters (104 page)

Mounier, Emmanuel, 4
03,
404

Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour
, 451, 467,
468

Muggeridge, Malcolm, 263,
355
,
421
, 432, 442, 475, 490

Munich,
122
,
127
,
303–4
,
343, 364

Muriel, 123, 152, 157–8,
162, 166;
and see
goats

Murry, John Middleton,
518
; L: 236, 392, 401; 11, 12, 53,
58
, 82,
153
, 158, 201,
237
,
390
,
393
, 395

Mussolini, Benito, 70, 152,
289
,
356

Myanmar:
see
Burma

My Caves
,
393

Myers, L.H.,
105
, 115,
149
,
192
,
212, 276,
2
90

repayment, 289

Myles, Norah,
518
;
L: from
Eileen, 66, 69, 94, 146, 1
83, 187; xv, 221,
260

Myles, Quartus St Leger, 65, 97, 148, 183, 259

Mynors, Roger, 6,
7
, 345

Nagel, Paris, 41, 274, 298

Naini Tal, x

Naked and the Dead
,
The
,
479

Napoleon, 48,
207
, 246, 281

narrator, role of, 325, 338,
339
,
405

N[ational] C[ouncil for] C[ivil] L[iberties], 409

National Dried Milk,
419,
421

NBC broadcast, 431, 481,
481

Negrín, Dr Juan, 285,
287

Negro,
43
,
156,
228
, 268, 420

Nelson (
née
Fletcher), Margaret,
255
, 315

Neumann, Margarete, 460,
462
, 463

Neumann, Robert, 229

Newcastle upon Tyne, xiii, 221,
242, 253, 254, 257, 261,
401

New Economic Policy (USSR),
336

New English Weekly
,
16,
18
, 23, 64, 102, 144

New Grub Street
, 408, 439,
467

New Lanark,
404

New Leader
,
74,
136
, 457, 463,
468

New Party, the,
58
,
87

New Republic
,
329,
330
, 335,
336
, 353

New Road
,
213,
215

News Chronicle
,
89, 92,
93
,
110
, 137, 178, 275

newsletters for BBC, writing, 195; reading, 208

News Review
,
178

New Statesman (and Nation)
,
19
, 20, 81, 84, 90, 98–101, 102, 133,
165
, 329,
330
,
381

New Testament
,
62,
63

New Writing
,
68
,
139,
140
, 213

New York, 37, 39, 43,
206,
275
,
284,
289
, 339, 390, 395, 431, 439

New Yorker
, xii, 327, 329, 412

New York Herald Tribune
, 42

New York Times
Book Review
,
449

Nicholls, Beverley, 48

Nicholls’s goat, 152

Nicholson & Watson, 229, 230,
231

Nidderdale,
315

Niebuhr, Helmut, 463,
464

Niebuhr, Reinhold, 463,
464

Nin, Andrés, 84,
85
, 9
2, 99

Nineteen Eighty-Four
, ix, xi, xiv, xvi, 9, 11, 65, 197,
318
,
321
, 431
, 442

abridgement, 453, 471,
472
, 481

as
1984
,
435,
435
,
436

blurb, 376, 427

broadcast, 431, 481,
481

Facsimile edn.,
321
, 435–6

metric measurements, 431, 447

preliminary thoughts, 9, 217, 226, 232–3, 34
6

Room 101, 197, 476 (vulgarity of),

serialisation, 480

should write some book, 251

title, 346, 41
8

2 + 2 = 5, 232

US attempts to cut, 431, 452–3, 456, 459, 481

writing it, 269, 281
, 282, 329, 346, 357, 360, 375, 414, 416, 425, 443

Niven, David, 432,
481

NKVD
, 31,
356
,
458

No Orchids for Miss Blandish
, 229

North Africa, 115, 1
52, 186, 212, 215, 216,
310
,
470
;
and see
Morocco

No Such Liberty
,
202

‘Notes on (by) the Way’, 61,
62

‘Notes on Nationalism’,
275
,
297

‘nothing ever dies’, 473

Nursery Rhymes
,
44

Obelisk Press, 173

Obermeyer, Rosalind, xii–xiii,
53

Observer
,
The
,
L: to
Frederick Tomlinson, 369; 18, 19, 74, 107, 137, 204, 2
15, 216,
217
, 221, 242, 244, 249, 260, 262, 266, 267, 29
1, 299, 323, 375, 380, 387, 390,
392
, 398,
418
, 422, 425, 454, 457, 458, 467, 4
78

Odd Women
,
The
, 399, 408, 467

O’Donovan, Patrick, 422,
423

O[fficers’] T[raining] C[orps],
7
,
158,
159

Ogden, C.K.,
518
; L: 226;
227

Old Wives’ Tale
,
The
,
55

On a Chinese Screen
,
269

‘On a Ruined Farm near the HMV Gramophone Factory’,
35

onto/on to, 447,
447 et passim

Operation Plunder, 260

Opium Department:
see
Indian Civil Service

oranges distributed, 253

orientals, 392

Orlando, Ruggiero, 467,
468

Orlov, Viktor, 31

Orwell, George, L: 74–6;
L: from
Eileen: 247–56, 258–60, 260–1

attitude to biography, 317

autobiographical notes, xi–xii

blitzed, 211, 221, 236, 405, 422,
423

bronchitis, 66

burial, 432, 490

catapult, skill with, 345

character, ix–x, xii, xiv, xv, 31, 69, 195–6, 405,
433

diagnosis, 107, 146–7, 377

family saga, 174

fishing, 75, 251, 28
2, 314, 320, 323, 352, 363, 389, 406, 413,
416
, 422, 431
, 445, 450, 462, 490

funeral, 432, 490

illness, xiii, 66, 98,
135, 142, 143, 144, 146, 168, 1
69, 243, 299, 357, 381, 382, 387, 3
88, 393, 394, 396, 399, 402, 416, 433, 438, 445, 449,
449
,
466

‘John Freeman’, 221

lack of glamour, 177

making ammunition, 312–3

marriage, 66, 307, 490

new clothes, 462

new will, 274,
466

not Russophobe, 275

over-pessimistic, 173,

passport renewal, 462

re-marriage, 307–8, 367
, 478, 484, 487, 489, 490

reviewing,
16, 63,
68
,
83
, 178,
217
,
242, 251,
255
,
295, 327, 377, 379, 383, 426;
book reviews not indexed

serial writing, 52, 53

shoe purchases/sizes, 3
29, 330, 333, 334,
336
, 341, 353,
367
, 369

smell, 5, 60, 85, 86, 118, 121, 267–9,
268
, 403, 420

streptomycin, 375, 386, 387,
388,
390
, 390,
391
, 393, 397,
398
, 399, 407, 433, 434,
434–5
, 436
, 443, 459, 461, 462, 465

superstition,
x, 11,
23
,
181

time-table, 50

treatment, 103, 110,
306
, 368, 370
, 371, 375, 377,
378
, 379, 380
, 381, 382, 384, 393,
398
, 400, 40
8, 431, 433,
434–5
, 438, 439, 443–4, 4
82, 486

‘Trotskyist prejudices’, 271;
and see
31

‘two wasted years’, 116

voice, 82, 30
5

wants child, 177

war correspondent, xv, 215, 221, 243, 305

war-work, 174, 175

wounded, 79,
98
, 30
5

‘Orwell and the Stinkers’, 267–9

O’Shaughnessy, Catherine Mary, 251, 252, 253, 254,
255
, 256, 2
59

O’Shaughnessy, Eileen:
see
Blair, Eileen

O’Shaughnessy, Gwen,
519
; L: 377, 465; 72, 146, 161, 162, 165,
188
, 221, 238, 239, 248, 249,
255
, 258, 259, 261
, 263, 317, 433

O’Shaughnessy, Laurence (Eric),
519
;
L: from Eileen
, 76; 66,
68
, 70,
71
,
79, 96,
98
,
122
,
149
,
179
,
189

O’Shaughnessy, Laurence (son of above), 98, 146,
148¸
162
, 247, 251, 252, 253,
255
, 256, 258, 259

O’Shaughnessy, Marie,
519
;
L: from
Eileen, 71; 66,
67

Ostermilk, 253, 254,
256
, 259, 419, 421

Oughton, Maurice, 53,
54

Our Mutual Friend
, 36

Out of the Night
,
356

Ovsëenko, Vladimir Antonov, 91, 93

Owen, Robert, 403,
404

Oxford, 65, 70,
75
,
97, 251, 271

by–election, 136,
136
,
145

pacifism, 94, 190, 19
2, 207, 395;
and see
PPU

‘Pacifism and War’,
213

Pakistan,
102
, 455

Palestine,
317
, 394, 411, 470

pamphlet collection, 288,
289
,
404