George Orwell: A Life in Letters (98 page)

anarchism, anarchists,
93
,
109
,
303, 334, 349,
383
,
464

Anders, General,
2
92

Anderson, Evelyn, 248,
255

Anderson, Mrs,
122
, 142, 239,
240

Anderson shelter, 120,
122
,
125, 142,
240

And Even Now
, 48

Andover, 249

Anglo-Catholic, 483

Anglo-Indian(s), xi,
124, 420, 455

Angus, Ian, xiv,
76
,
235
,
255
,
316
,
413

Animal Farm
,
228

as
‘little squib’, 226

film rights, 331, 340

Orwell’s interpretation,
333, 334,
336

radio adaptation, 334,
336
,
337,
338

serialisation, 272

translations, 272, 283, 288, 299, 330, 331, 415

turning point, 334,
336

Animaux Partout!
,
Les
,
281

Anisimov, Ivan,
437

anti-Russian, 265, 285, 458

anti-semitism:
see
Jews

anti-Stalin, 229, 333

anti-war activities, 131, 13
2, 138, 153, 394,
464

Ape and Essence
,
449

Apponyi, Alexandrine,
490

Arabic, 5, 147, 151, 155

Arab funerals, 128,
129

Arabs, 118, 120, 1
24, 135, 138, 143, 147, 150, 151, 152, 1
55, 156, 157, 166

Aragon front, 69, 91

Aragon, Louis, 213,
214
,
301

Ardent
,
HMS,
71

Ardlussa, 250,
255
, 314,
315
, 316,
389
,
452
, 478

Ardrishaig, 485

Arquer, Jordi,
509
;
L: 477; 31

‘Art of Donald McGill, The’,
225
,
481

‘As I Please’, 221
,
228
,
304
, 329,
330
,
337
,
353,
365

‘As One Non–Combatant to Another’,
214

Assault Guards, 106

Astor, David,
509
;
L: 365, 370, 386, 388, 389, 390, 398, 41
6, 421, 425, 434, 472, 478, 485;
L: from
Bruce Dick, 433; xiv, xv, 25, 250
,
255
, 369, 375, 383, 387,
391
, 432, 47
4, 490

Astor, Lady, 24,
24

Astor, Lord,
24
, 242

Astor, Mrs David, L: 397

Atlantic Islands
,
The
,
392

Atlas Mountains, 115, 128, 135, 144, 151, 155, 157

atomic bombs/war, 27
4, 399, 417, 421,
421

Attlee, Clement,
110
,
138,
139
,
385

Aubrey, John, 368,
368
, 475,
475

Auden, W.H., 105,
339

Aung San,
199

Austerlitz, Battle of,
207

Austin (car), 484

Australian, 204,
204

Austria,
132
, 242, 2
64

Ayer, Alfred Jules, 305,
306
, 323,
324

Aylesford Sanatorium, 103, 105, 159,
160

Baillie-Stewart, Norman,
382

Baker, Denys Val,
228

Baker, John, 296, 297,
346,
347

Bakerism, 346

Balabanov, Angelica, 354,
356

Balderston Warren & Co, 3
60

Bali and Angkor
,
62

Ballard, Arthur, 291

ball-point pens, 488;
and see
Biro, Rollball

Bantock, G.H., L: 276

Barcelona, 77, 79, 90,
93
, 152, 156,
162

escape from, 83

May Events/Riots, 81, 83–4, 89, 92, 100, 106, 109, 180

Barnes, Bishop E.W.,
25

Barney the Apostate, 24

Barnhill, xi, 18, 250,
255
, 281, 282, 290, 2
98, 312, 316, 348, 365,
366
, 375, 378, 384, 3
96, 402, 426,
434
, 437, 451, 462, 487,
et passim;
and see
Jura

description, 314–5, 317, 397

future, 379, 469

Barrès, Philippe, 203

Bashkirtseff, Marie, 45
2,
452

Basic English, 226,
227

basic petrol, 391,
391

Bates, H.W., 409,
410

Battalia
,
La
,
92

bayonets, 186, 187,
187

Bayou, Pamela de (Mrs Warburg),
358

Bayswater, 33

BBC
, 60, 116, 197,
216, 227, 346, 455;
and see
Indian Service

Radio Three, 196, 326

resignation, 21
5, 216,
216–7
,
226

treated well, 216

‘Beachcomber’,
17

Beddard, Terence, 7

Bedworthy, Barbara, 48

Beerbohm, Max, 48

Before the Bombardment
,
408

Beggar My Neighbour
,
214

Belgium, 82, 343, 364

Beneš, Edvard,
395

Benjamin, the donkey, xiv

Bennett, Arnold,
55

Beresford, Ruth,
322

Best Poems of 1934
, 34

Bevan, Anuerin, xii, 244, 335,
465

Beveridge Report, 210,
388

Bing, Geoffrey,
93

Binns Department Store, 253

Biro,
294
,
370, 379, 380, 389,
489

birth control, 24

birth rate, 210,
210

Blackburn, Mrs,
255
, 260

Blackburn, Raymond, 251, 253,
255
, 257

black magic: x,
23
;
and see
superstition

Blackshirts, 58,
58

Black Spring
, 63–5,
65

Blair, Avril,
509
;
L: to
Humphrey Dakin,
3
14;
to
Michael Kennard, 415; x, xii, 5, 18, 67, 119, 259, 282, 311,
315
,
316
,
366
, 377, 384, 436, 437, 440, 443, 4
51, 456, 459, 462, 464, 466, 469, 4
74, 485, 487
et passim

Blair, Eileen (
and
as
‘Pig’),
509
; L: 74;

L: to
her husband, 2
47, 258, 260;

L: to
Jack Common, 103;

L: to
Mary Common,
142;

L: to
Lettice Cooper, 256;

L: to
Geoffrey Gorer, 128;

L: to
Denys King-Farlow, 110;

L: to
Leonard Moore, 107, 243;

L: to
her mother, 71;

L: to
Norah Myles, 66, 69, 94, 146, 183, 187;

L: to
Dr Laurence O’Shaughnessy, 76;

L: from
Marjorie Dakin, 125;

adoption of little girl?, 252,
255
;
and see
10

death, 221, 261, 262

house at Harefield, 248

house in country, 250

hysterectomy, 257

ill-health, 122, 16
0, 183–4,
185
, 188,
189
, 192, 248

irony, 146

London a nightmare, 25
1

operation, 248

tumours, 249

will,
260

xiii, xiv,
70
,
76
,
116,
160
,
256
,
307,
345

Blair, Eric
see
Orwell, George

Blair, Ida,
510
;
L: 5; x,
68

Blair, Marjorie:
see
Dakin, Marjorie

Blair, Richard (Orwell’s son),
510
; 273,
366
,
393
et passim

adoption, 237,
237

horoscope, x, 237, 238,
238

pocket money, 451, 466

relations with father,
449
, 464,
475

schooling, 308, 311, 322, 408, 420
, 439, 443, 461, 466, 469, 473, 474, 477,
478, 482, 484, 487

Blair, Richard Walmsley,
510
;
x, xi, xiv,
21
, 33, 67, 115,
118, 146, 152, 158, 165, 169, 174

Bland Beginning
, 442

Bless ’Em All
, 204,
204

Blok, Alexander, 226,
226

Bloy, Leon, 413,
413

Blunden, Edmund, 270,
270
, 358,
359

Bob(bie), the horse, 366, 371
, 387, 398, 422

Bodleian Library, 251

Bokhari, Zulfaqar Ali,
510
; L: 185; 197

Bolsheviks, 80, 105
, 236

Booklovers’ Corner,
42
,
43
,
50
,
53
,
156
,
380

Book of Common Prayer
, 62

Book of the Month Club (USA), 281, 309,
309
, 317, 431, 453, 456, 459

books ordered, 155

‘Books that Changed the World’,
207

Boothby, Guy, 19

Borkenau, Franz,
83
, 98, 354, 454

Born in Exile
, 399

‘Boule de Suif’, 48, 325

Bowker, Gordon, 18, 196

Boyle, Francis,
417
,
451,
452

boys’ papers, 175–6,
177
, 283, 298, 304, 412

‘Boys’ Weeklies’,
172
,
225
,
306

Boys will be Boys
,
417

Brailsford, Henry Noel,
510
;
L: 90, 91;
93
, 100, 101

Brander, Laurence,
510
;
L: to
L.F. Rushbrook Williams, 208;
326

brandy, 25
2, 322, 352

Branthwaite, Jock, 83,
85

Brideshead Revisited
, 413