GEORGE ORWELL - Timeline, Turning Points and Achievement

EFS Assessment - BIOGRAPHY

GEORGE ORWELL

Timeline—

1903 - born in India

1911- went to St Cyprian's School in Eastbourne

1921- worked in British Police

1928-  journeyed to Paris
1934- got a party time job at second hand bookshop

1935 – another novel published  call A Clergyman's Daughter

1936 – married Eileen

1936 – wrote a book about poverty in northern England

1936 – civil war between left wing Republicans and Fascist Nationalists

1936 – flight in Spanish Civil War

1936 – wounded his throat and left from Spain

1937- was published The Road to Wigan Pier 

1938 – arrived Britain wrote A homage to Catalonia

1938 –was suffering from tuberculosis

1938 – spent the winter in Morocco

1939- published another novel comping up for air

1945- published great satire Animal Farm

1949 –  published masterpiece 1984 but health was failing

1949- married second wife Sonia

1950- died 21 January only 46

Turning Points:

 grew dissatisfied and resigned at British police in Burma

 Orwell worked a teacher in a small private school
First married
became literary editor for Tribune left wing magazine
Second married

Achievements:

 won a scholarship to Eton

 his first book published Down in Out in Paris and London
was commissioned to write a book about poverty in northern England

 stared worked in BBC