George Orwell’s house in Oxfordshire on sale
The house that inspired George Orwell to become an accomplished writer reportedly been put on sale in Britain. The price: £1.1 million.
Born Eric Arthur Blair on 25 June 1903 in Motihari, now in Bihar, Orwell lived in the four-bedroom Victorian home — named Roselawn — in Shiplake, Oxfordshire, from the age of nine to 12 years with his mother and sisters.
Considered perhaps the 20th century’s best chronicler of English culture, Orwell is best known for the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty Four (1949) and the satirical novella Animal Farm (1945) — together they have sold more copies than any two books by any other 20th century author.
In fact, the Orwell’s family moved to Shiplake before World War I, and it was here he became friendly with Buddicom family, especially Jacintha Buddicom, then aged 13.
Both Eric and Jacintha used to read and write poetry, and dreamy of becoming famous writers. Orwell told her that he might write a book in similar style to that of HG Wells’s A Modern Utopia.
However, the two aspiring writers separated in 1915 when his family moved to a smaller home in Henley-on-Thames.
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