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ORWELL, George
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From: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
Date: 19980101
Author:TOM McARTHUR
ORWELL, George
[1903–50]. Pen name of Eric Arthur Blair , English novelist, journalist, and political thinker. The adoption in 1933 of the pen name, taken from the River Orwell in East Anglia, marked his transformation from a member of the establishment of the British Empire into a social, political, and literary radical. He was born in Montihari, Bengal, India, the son of a British civil servant, and educated at Eton (where Aldous Huxley was one of his masters). From there he went in 1922 to serve in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, but resigned because he disliked ...Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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