Anna Funder's 'Wifedom' unearths the story of Eileen Blair, who died young after suffering mightily from George Orwell's mistreatment and neglect.
The painter known to many as Lucian Freud’s one-time muse writes of her own muse, her mother, and provers herself a masterful writer as well.In a lengthy section of the book, Funder describes Eileen’s dangerous work during that war and her essential help to Orwell. If you read “,” Orwell’s book about the war, you would barely register that Eileen was there, despite the fact that she typed the manuscript and provided many of its anecdotes.
Anna Funder’s latest book, “Wifedom,” tells the story of Eileen Blair, George Orwell’s all-but-forgotten wife. Funder gives us Eileen’s actual writing — a description of their life in Africa, where they stayed for a while in hopes that the warm climate would be good for his health. Orwell used her description in his essay, “Marrakesh.” Funder puts both versions side by side and describes hers as “pithily alive.” In other words, Eileen’s writing is better., had a violent, sadistic relationship with women. Overtones of repressed homosexuality appear in both men’s work and biographies.
He tried to join the war effort in 1939 but was rejected for health reasons. Through her full-time job at the Ministry of Food, Eileen supported both of them despite her own rapidly declining health. When her beloved brother was killed in action, Eileen suffered cruelly. Orwell started writing “,” based on an idea of Eileen’s, and embarked on several sexual affairs. On the scheduled date of their adoption court hearing, Orwell was in France.
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