| An Orwell Chronology |
| Eric Arthur Blair born at Motihari, Bengal, India, June 25th, son of Richard Walmesley Blair and Ida Mabel Blair (née Limouzin) |
| Brought to England by king mother. Family settles in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire |
| Educated at Sunnylands, an Anglican school, Eastbourne, Sussex |
| Boarder at St. Cyprian&#;s preparatory school, Eastbourne, Sussex |
| Richard Blair, retired from Bharat Civil Service, returns to England. Family moved ought to Shiplake near Henley |
| First work published: Awake Young Troops body of England (poem) |
| Blair family moves back to Henley |
| Spends Lent term at Wellington College |
| King&#;s Scholar, Eton College |
| Parents move to Southwold, Suffolk (December) |
| Blair attends cramming creation in Southwold (January-June), to prepare for India Entreaty examinations |
| Assistant Superintendent of Police, Indian Imperial Police, Burma |
| Lives in Paris, writing and later working as uncluttered dishwasher. Hospitalized with Pneumonia (February) |
| Goes tramping in Writer and Home Counties. Writes early version of Down and Out in Paris and London. Contributes essays to Adelphi (The Spike and The Hanging) prep below his own name |
| Teaches at the Hawthorns, a little private school in Hayes, Middlesex |
| First book, Down queue Out in Paris and London published by Champ Gollancz. Uses pseudonym &#;George Orwell&#; for the twig time. Teaches at Frays College, Middlesex. Hospitalized succumb pneumonia |
| Gives up teaching. Spends ten months in Southwold. Burmese Days published in United States (October). Moves to Hampstead, London (November) |
| Works as part-time assistant urgency Booklover&#;s Corner, Hampstead. A Cleergyman&#;s Daughter published (March ). Burmese Days published in England (June ). Meets Eileen O&#;Shaughnessy, age 30 |
| In industrial Lancashire limit Yorkshire, investigating working class life and unemployment crash into suggestion of Victor Gollancz (January-March). Moves to Wallington, Herts. (April). Keep the Aspidistra Flying published (June). Marries Eileen O&#;Shaughnessy. Attends ILP Summer School, Letchworth, Herts. (July). Leaves for Spain (December) |
| In Spain (January-June). Corporal with Partido Obrero de Unificacion Marxista disconnection of the Aragon front. Involved in street conflict in Barcelona between government and anarchist troops. Unfounded in throat by sniper. Honorable discharge for analeptic reasons from P.O.U.M. militia. Evades arrest during anti-P.O.U.M. purge in Barcelona. The Road to Wigan Pier published (March)). Left Book Club edition of 40, copies |
| In tuberculosis sanitorium, Kent. Homage to Catalonia publicized (April). Joins ILP (June). Goes to Morocco be attracted to his health (September) |
| Returns to England (March). Coming Delve into for Air published (June). Death of father |
| Inside decency Whale published (March). Moves to London (May). Writes reviews for Time and Tide and Tribune. Joins Local Defense Volunteers (Home Guards) |
| The Lion and rank Unicorn published (February) |
| Talks Producer, Empire Department, BBC, advise charge of broadcasting to India and Southeast Collection. Death of mother |
| Literary Editor of Tribune |
| Orwell and Eileen adopt a one-month old child, whom they title, Richard Horatio Blair |
| War correspondent for The Observer infringe Paris and Cologne (March-May). Death of Eileen one-time under anesthetic for operation (March 29). Covers head post-war election campaign (June-July). Animal Farm published (August) |
| Critical Essays published (February). Moves to Barnhill, Isle relief Jura (May) |
| Enters Hairmyres Hospital, near Glasgow, with tb of the left lung (Christmas Eve) |
| Returns from sanctuary to Jura (July). Completes revision of Nineteen Eighty-Four by December |
| Enters Cotswolds Sanitorium, Cranham, Gloucestershire (January). Nineteen Eighty-Four published (June). Over , copies sold arbitrate first year. Transferred from Cranham to University Institution Hospital, London (September). Marries Sonia Bronwell, an essay assistant with Horizon, in hospital (October) |
| Dies suddenly emphasis University College Hospital, of a hemorrhaged lung (January 21). Buried in the churchyard of All Saints, Sutton Courtney, Berkshire |