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Mais um livro que tira outra mulher da obscuridade. Eileen Blair, a primeira mulher de George Orwell, é retratada no novo livro de Anna Funder, #Wifedom.
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/07/wifedom-by-anna-funder-review-a-brilliant-reckoning-with-george-orwell-to-change-the-way-you-read
Wifedom by Anna Funder review – a brilliant reckoning with George Orwell to change the way you read

Blending forensic research, fiction, life writing and criticism, Funder upends the legacy of literary triumph to reveal the woman behind it

The Guardian
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"George Orwell, according to Funder, was a genuine truth-teller and defender of human decency. But he was also profoundly hypocritical: oblivious to both his wife’s achievements and her suffering, and monumentally blind to the sexism, even misogyny, of his behaviour towards women in general."
https://feministlegal.org/why-the-story-of-george-orwells-brilliant-first-wife-eileen-blair-is-important-today/
Why the story of George Orwell’s brilliant first wife Eileen Blair is important today

Eileen O’Shaughnessy married Orwell in 1936 and became Eileen Blair (George Orwell’s real name was, rather prosaically, Eric Blair). But she was virtually missing from Orwell’s own, often deeply pe…

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