Meet Mrs. Orwell at the Brooklyn Book Festival
Mrs. Orwell will be at the Brooklyn Book Festival on Sunday, September 27 at 12pm ET. Details here and in the show notes. I would love to meet Gaslit Nation listeners! So if you can, come by and say hi. In the meantime, above is the April 13 book launch of Mrs. Orwell at PowerHouse Arena. Thank you to the listeners who came out–it was a joy to see you!
There would have been no George Orwell without Eileen O'Shaughnessy Blair. She saved her husband's life twice, including while they fought fascists on their honeymoon in the Spanish Civil War.
Eileen was more Orwell than Orwell. While Eric…
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