George Orwell: A Life in Letters (106 page)

Roberti, Jacques, 15

Roberts, Cecil, 411,
412

Roberts, Mr, 4
83

Robertson, 258

Rock Pool
,
The
,
65

Rodden, John, ix

Rollball pen, 389

Roman Catholicism, ix, xi, 13,
17
, 18, 84,
286
,
404
,
410
,
414
,
401

Rome, 287, 288

Room 101, ix, 197
, 476

Rose, Fred, 356

Rose, Jim, 416,
417
, 425

Rossborough, Revd., 158

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 448, 451

Rossetti: His Life and Work
,
451

Roughing It
, 34, 38,

Routledge & Sons, L: 202; 230,
231

Rovira, Jose, 246

R[oyal] A[rmy] M[edical] C[orps], 122,
122
,
127
,
441

Royston, 290

Rubinstein, Harold, 47,
47

‘Rudyard Kipling’, 224

rum, 351, 440, 449

Runciman, Steven,
520
;
L: 6

Rushbrook Williams, L.F.,
520
; L: 216;
L: from
Laurence Brander, 208; 195, 197,
216

Russell, Bertrand, 24,
43
, 164,
165
, 285, 305, 334, 354, 427,
427
, 440,
441
, 448,
449

Russell, John, 489,
490

Russia:
see
USSR

Russian Enigma
,
355
,
356

Sahni, Balraj,
521
; 195

St Andrews and Jesmond Cemetery, 261

‘St Andrew’s Day’,
49

St Cyprian’s School, 3,
5
,
145,
145

St Felix School for Girls, 50, 52,
52

St Hugh’s College, 96,
98
,
149

St John in the Wilderness, x

St Luke’s Gospel
,
63

Salammbô
, 152

Salazar, Dr Antonio de Oliveira, 23
2

Salis, C.E. de, L: 266

Salisbury, 126

Salkeld, Brenda,
521
; L: 18, 23, 33, 35, 3
7, 48, 49, 50, 347, 363; xiv, 18, 1
9, 20,
49
,
52
, 463, 467

saloon rifles, 444

Salter, Alfred,
237

Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, 48

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 403
, 418, 420

Saturday Weekly News Letter (
BBC
), 208

Sayers, Michael, L: 275;
53
,
53,
54
,
275–6

Sceats, John,
521
;
L: 132, 135;
134

Schimanski, Stefan, 244,
245

Schnetzler, Karl, 160,
300
, 436

school play, 22

Scotland, 2
98, 300, 304, 319, 324, 329, 341, 379,
401
,
405
,
408, 424, 461;
and see
Hebrides, Jura

Schuschnigg, Kurt von, 131,
132

Science and the Planned State
, 346

Scribner’s, 288

Searchlight Books, 183, 184

‘Second Thoughts on James Burnham’,
301
, 319

Secret Agent
, 267, 446

semicolon, their absence, 367

Senhouse, Roger,
521
;
L: 246, 366, 427, 447; 357,
358
, 376, 388, 424

Sentimental Journey
,
The
(Dickens),
449

serial, attempts to write,
52–3

serialisation of his books,
272
,
331
,
331
, 479,
480
,
481, 488

Shakespeare, William, 16, 44,
45
,
132
,
134
,
334, 440–1,
441

Shannon, Miss, 358, 359

Shaw-Karen,
41
,
199

Shelden, Michael, 7, 73–4, 103,
321, 435

Shelley, P.B., 483

Sherwood, Mrs Mary Martha, 19

Shiplake, 5, 443

‘Shooting an Elephant’, 31,
68
,
140

shop, 59, 60, 61, 62, 64, 77;
and see
‘The Stores’

Silone, Ignazio, 289, 325, 467,
468

Silver Jubilee, 1935, 5
0–1,
52

Simmonds, Louis,
156
, 438

Sinclair, May, 469

Singapore, 34, 35, 61
, 288

Sinister Street
,
145, 406,
406

Sitwell, Edith, 89,
90
,
182

Sitwell, Osbert,
521
;
16, 283, 401,
402
, 408, 474

Sitwell, Sacheverell,
519
;
L: 181; x,
182

Skotskii Khutor
,
272
,
423

Slater, Hugh (Humphrey),
522
; L: 326; 204, 249, 284, 296,
323
,
353

Slip Under the Microscope
,
A
, 325

smell and Orwell,
see
Orwell: smell

Smillie, Bob,
85

Smollett (Smolka), Peter,
235

Snooty Baronet
, 19

Social Credit Movement, 23,
24

socialism/socialists, 60,
60
, 69, 121, 268,
404
,
414
,
464

‘Socialism and War’,
132
,
140

S[ocialist] B[ook] C[entre], 327,
328

sociological literary criticism, 176, 370

Solidaridad Obrera
,
92, 137

Solidarity
,
137

‘Some Thoughts on the Common Toad’, 281,
310

Soul of Man under Socialism
,
The
,
398

South America, 29
2, 410

South Shields, xii, 70

Southwold, xv, 3,
14
,
18
,
21
,
25, 37,
52
,
55, 79, 88, 95, 115, 140
, 158, 161, 181

Souvenirs de Starobielsk
,
292

Soviet Communism: A New Civilisation
, 354,
355

Spain/Civil War, xii, xv, 31,
41
,
68
,
69,
73–4
, 80, 81, 82, 83–4,
85
, 86, 88–9, 92–3,
93,
9
4–5,
97
, 100, 109, 120, 130, 146, 150
, 152, 153, 168, 176, 179, 180, 211, 246,
255
, 285,
311
, 319,
353
,
383
,
417
et passim

financial arrangements, 72, 77

Spanish Cockpit
,
The
,
81,
83
,
98, 99, 101

Spanish Government, 70, 92–3, 100, 109

Spanish Morocco:
see
Morocco

Spanish Revolution
,
The
(journal),
73

Sparrow, Miss, 248,
255

Spectator
,
L: 186

Spender, Stephen,
522
;
L: 104; 100, 101,
105
, 172, 174, 474

‘Spike, The’,
12

spirits:
see
brandy, rum, whisky

Spoils of Poynton
, 474

Squire, John, C., 19,
19
, 163,
165

Stalin/Stalinism, 31,
43
,
73
,
101
,
101, 163,
165
, 229, 232, 233,
235
,
285
,
285, 286, 291,
336
,
346, 348,
356
,
464
,
465
,
477

Stalino-Liberals, 329

Stalin and German Communism
,
461,
463

Star
,
The
,
487

Starkie, Enid,
27

Starobielsk,
246
,
292

Stein, Gertrude, 19

Steinbeck, John, 80

stew recipe, 51

Stock Exchange, 97

Stockton Food Office (steals coupons), 253

Stockton-on-Tees,
185
, 221
,
238
, 242, 247, 257

‘Stores, The’, xiv, 59, 62,
74
, 94, 111
, 121, 130, 263, 282, 290, 320,
321
,
360
;
see also
the cottage, the shop

description, 112

Strachey, John, 86,
87
,
420,
421

Strand
,
The
, x, xii

Strand Palace Hotel,
55

streptomycin,
see
Orwell

Stroud,
434
,
464
,
472

Struve, Gleb,
522
; L: 226, 271, 400, 423; 271
,
272
,
355,
423
, 437, 480

Studs Lonigan
, 413

Subramaniam, 267, 268

‘Such, Such Were the Joys’, x. 282,
312
,
357,
358
,
360
,
375

Sudeten Germans,
122

Suffolk, 47, 88, 140, 166, 181

Summerson, Esther, 11

Sunday Times
, 18, 74, 169,
490

Sunderland, xiii, 253

superstition and black magic, x, 11,
23
,
181, 251

Sutton Courtney, 490

Sweden, 458,

sweets, 59, 62
, 451, 466; rationing,
466–7

Swift, Jonathan, 34, 225, 322, 334, 354

Swinbank, (‘the farmer’), 251

Switzerland,
289
,
331, 431, 438,
466
, 471, 489, 490

Symons, A.J.A., 108,
380
, 405,
406

Symons, Julian,
522
; L: 379, 399, 405, 413, 419, 439, 442, 476;
414
,
422, 447

Szewczenko, Ihor,
522
; L: 343
;
L: to
Orwell, 302, 343; xiii,
303
,
304
,
343,
344