Special Commissioned Entry on George Orwell, W. Scott Lucas - About George Orwell
About George Orwell
W. Scott Lucas
SOURCE: Lucas, W. Scott. “An Overview of the Life and Career of George Orwell.” In Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 128, edited by Scott Darga and Linda Pavlovski. Farmington Hills, Mich.: The Gale Group, 2002.
[In the following original essay, Lucas discusses Orwell's life, career, awards and recognition, and overall body of work, while also examining the era in which Orwell wrote and the critical reception of his works.]
ABOUT GEORGE ORWELL
Eric Blair, later known as George Orwell, was a child of the British Empire, born in Motihari, India, on 25 June 1903. He was the second child and only son of Richard Blair, an official in the Opium Department of the Indian Civil Service, and Ida Limouzin Blair. She was the daughter of an English mother and a French father who frittered away the family's businesses in Burma. Richard Blair was forty-six when his son was born; his wife...
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