George Orwell: A Life in Letters (100 page)

as ‘boy of eighteen’, 86

Country of the Blind
, 145, 406

court appearance, 244,
256

Cow & Gate milk, 419

C Programme:
see
Radio 3

Craighouse,
309
, 3
14,
315
, 352

Crainquebille
, 325,
414

Cranham Sanatorium, 11,
383
, 427, 431,
433
,
434
,
435
,
437
, 438, 454,
464
,
472
,
475
,
485

Crankshaw, Edward, 417,
418

Crick (cinema proprietor), 20,
21

Crillon Hotel, 3

Criterion
,
The
,
339

Criterion, the, 97

Critical Essays
, ix,
231,
290
, 298, 332,
345

croquet, 412

Crosse & Blackwell pickles, 73

Crossman, R.H.S., 380,
380

Crux Ansata
, 285,
286

crypto-communists,
455
, 457, 463,
4
64
, 470

cuckoo, 309

Curran, Charles,
471
,
472

currency equivalents, xviii,
74

C.W. Review
, 330

Czapski, Joseph,
246
,
292

Czech Silesia,
122

Czechoslovakia/Czechs, 121,
122
, 123, 131, 133, 153, 395,
395
, 455,
455

Daily Herald
,
101

Daily Mail
,
110,
487

Daily Worker
,
21,
22
,
75
,
76
,
85
,
86, 89,
140
,
311
, 420

Dakin, Dr, 127,
127

Dakin, Henry, 127, 148, 314,
315

Dakin, Humphrey,
512
;
L: from
Avril Blair, 314;
122
,
127
, 148,
149

Dakin, Jane, 127, 127, 148,

Dakin, Lucy, 127, 148

Dakin, Marjorie,
512
;
L: 3
11;
L: from
Eileen, 120;
L: to
Eileen, 125;
127
, 148,
149

Dali, Salvador, 229, 288, 386

Dante, 475

Dark Side of the Moon
,
The
,
355,
356

Darlington, C.D.,
513
;
L: 346; 346,
347
, 454

Darlington station, 247

Darroch, Donald and Kate, 365, 366, 389,
389

Darroch, Neil,
390

Dartford by-election, 136

Dartmoor Prison, 150

Darwin, Charles, 34; see
Voyage of the Beagle

Davenport, John, 419, 421

Davet, Yvonne,
513
;
L: 297, 318;
L: from
Sonia Orwell, 489;
56
, 169,
170
,
336

Davey, Charles, 409, 410

Davies, E. Rowan,
513
;
L: 198

Dawn’s Delay
,
The
,
413

‘Days in London and Paris’, 14

Dearman, Mr, 320,
321

deaths of Orwell’s relatives and friends in his lifetime: Alan Clutton-Brock’s wife, 63; Godfrey Meynell, 63; his father, 115; Bobby Longden, 305,
306
;
Teddy Lovett,
71
; his mother, 196; Anne Popham’s fiancé,
295
; Eileen, 26
1; his sister Marjorie, 312; Victor Serge,
299

Declaration of the Rights of Man, 285,
286

‘Decline of the English Murder’, 281

Deeping, Warwick, 441,
441

de Gaulle, Charles, 203, 204,
225
, 232, 417, 422

Denmark, 88

Desai, R.R.,
513
; L: 210

Desmarais, Ralph, 346

Deutsch, Andre,
231

De Valera, Eamon, 232

Devon, 126, 179

Dial Press, 229, 241, 270, 283

Dick, Dr Bruce,
513
;
L: to
David Astor, 433; xv, 378, 386, 390

Dick, Kay,
513
;
L: 273
;

Dickens, Charles,
12
,
36, 169,
172
, 224,
449

Dickens
,
Dali & Others
, ix,
225
, 288,
386

Dieppe Raid, 209,
209

Dinamov, Sergei,
514
;
L: 80

Diot, Dr., 118, 119

Discovery
, 346,
347

distance learning, 195

Distressed Areas, 31
, 65,

Dollfuss, Engelbert, 131,
132

Donoghue, Pat, 262, 264, 271, 320, 360

Donovan, Paddy, 311,
311
, 366

Doran, Charles,
514
;
L: 83, 127

Dorset, x, 107, 157, 160

Dover, Cedric,
228

doves, 121, 148

Down and Out in Paris and London
, xi, 3,
14
, 38, 39, 40,
41
,
45
, 45, 46,
55
, 64, 139, 150
, 308, 445

DPs (Displaced Persons), 343, 364, 423, 479, 483

dramatisations,
45
,
294
,
431,
481

Dr. Faustus
, 16

Driberg, Tom,
458

Drinkwater, John,
65
, 163,
165
,
221,
225

drought, 22, 26, 62, 128, 313, 363, 365

Dr. Nikola
,
19,
19

Drummond, Lindsay,
245

Dunkirk, 115,
189
,
204

Dunn, Bill, 365, 3
66, 371, 377,
380
, 390, 393, 398, 4
16, 437, 440, 451, 469, 485, 488

Durant, John, 65,
185

Durant, Margaret, 6
5

Durant, Norman, 65, 98, 184,
185

Eagleton, Terry, ix

E.A.M. (Greece), 265,
266

Easton Broad, 34

Eastwood, Christopher, 7–8,
8

Eccles Grammar School,
27

Edelman, Maurice, 470,
471

Edinburgh,
318
, 370, 408, 424, 456, 469, 482

Edwards, Bob, 7
2,
73

Edwards, Ruth Dudley, 85

Eliot, T. S.,
514
; L: 236; 14, 44, 65, 195,
230
, 23
0, 235, 281,
356
, 419, 447, 483, 4
91

Ellis, Havelock, 48

Embankment, the, 20

Emperor’s New Clothes
, 338

Empson, William, 214,
215
, 477

End of the Corridor
,
The
,
451

Enemies of Promise
, 7,
102
,
144,
145
,
357,
406

Enemy
,
The
,
16, 19, 51

England, longing to see it, 162

English and American languages, 4
0, 44,
45
, 48, 63, 64, 218, 227,
227
, 302, 446–7

English People
,
The
, 225,
225
, 270, 358,
359

Entertainment Tax, 20,
21

equivalent prices:
see
prices

Eric & Us
,
8. 10
,
445
,
473; web–site
3
66

Erval, N., 274

Esperantists/Esperanto,
67
, 226,
227

Esprit
,
403,
404

essays, book of: see
Inside the Whale

Esther Waters
, 408

Eton College, x, xi, 3,
7
, 7,
8
, 52, 62,
63
, 145,
1
45
, 268,
306
,
315
,
345
,
389
,
389, 420

Evening Standard
,
288,
406
, 452, 472

Evers, Harvey, 248, 249, 261

exchange rates, 72,
74
,
119
, 331,
437

Existentialism,
404
, 420

Eyre & Spottiswoode,
229
, 230

Faber & Faber (
and as
Faber’s), 14, 15, 218, 230
,
230
,
231
, 236, 281

Fabian Society, 202,
202
,
365

Façade
,
90

Fairchild Family
,
The
,
19

fairy stories, 11, 45, 225, 229, 251, 281,
284
,
285
,
338,
339

family saga planned, 169, 174

Far East, 266,
312

Farex, 254,
256

Farrell, J.T., 413,
414

Fascists/fascism,
12
, 84, 87, 88, 89, 92, 106, 121, 138, 381; anti-Fascists, 99

Fate of the Middle Classes
,
The
,
57

Faulkner, William, 39, 44

Federacion Española de Internados y Deportados, 477

fellow-travellers, 457,
464

Ferguson, Niall, 203

Fernwood House, 257,
260 (
in address
)

Fielden, Leslie, 213,
214

Fierz, Mabel and Sinclair,
14
,
14, 53,
54

fille de l’air
,
La
,
320

films,
21
, 33,
35
, 61, 115, 195, 238,
267
,
310
, 331, 340
, 385, 458

Finland, 176,
177
,
336
, 450

firearms, purchase of, 163

First Europe
,
The
,
441

Fischer, Ruth, 460,
461
, 463, 477,
480

fishing, 75, 251, 282, 314, 320, 323, 3
24, 352, 363, 389, 406, 413,
416
, 4
22, 431, 445, 450, 462, 490