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Anna Funder’s ‘Wifedom’: Restoring Visibility & Voice
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies chats with multi-award-winning author Anna Funder about her choices while crafting Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life. Wifedom resurrects Eileen O’Shaughnessy, a brilliant Oxford graduate who married George Orwell in 1936.
Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode:
Anna Funder’s inspiration for writing Wifedom
Why and how Eileen O’Shaughnessy was written out of George Orwell’s life story
How Anna restored Eileen’s voice and visibility
How Anna challenged the traditional biographical form by blending memoir…
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