George Orwell Height, Weight, Age, Wife, Children

George Orwell Quick Info
Height	6 ft 2 in
Weight	72 kg
Date of Birth	June 25, 1903
Zodiac Sign	Cancer
Date of Death	January 21, 1950

George Orwell was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and literary critic who is known for his allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). He has been declared “perhaps the 20th century’s best chronicler of English culture” and The Times ranked him second among “The 50 greatest British writers since 1945” in 2008. His bibliography includes Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and London, Homage to Catalonia, and others.

Born Name

Eric Arthur Blair

Other Name

George Orwell

George Orwell in BBC 1940 (BBC / penguinbooksindia.com / Public Domain)

Age

He was born on June 25, 1903.

Died

On January 21, 1950, George Orwell died from tuberculosis at the age of 46 in London, England, United Kingdom.

Resting Place

All Saints’ Church, Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

Sun Sign

Cancer

Born Place

Motihari, Bengal, British India

Nationality

Education

George Orwell attended a convent school in Henley-on-Thames as a day boy. He then studied at St Cyprian’s School in Eastbourne, East Sussex.

He later studied at Eton College.

Occupation

Novelist, Essayist, Journalist, Literary Critic

Family

Father – Richard Walmesley Blair (Worked as a Sub-Deputy Opium Agent in the Opium Department of the Indian Civil Service, overseeing the production and storage of opium for sale to China)
Mother – Ida Mabel Blair (née Limouzin)
Siblings – Marjorie (5-year Older Sister), Avril Dunn (née Blair) (5-year Younger Sister)
Others – Thomas Richard Arthur Blair (Paternal Grandfather) (Clergyman), Frances/Fanny Catherine Hare (Paternal Grandmother), Francis Matthew Limouzin (Maternal Grandfather), Theresa/Thérèse/Teresa Catherine Halliley (Maternal Grandmother), Charles Blair (Great-Great-Grandfather) (A wealthy slave-owning country gentleman and absentee owner of two Jamaican plantations), Lady Mary Fane (Great-Great-Grandmother)

Genre

Dystopia, Roman à clef, Satire, Literary Criticism, Polemic, Opinion Journalism

Subjects

Anti-fascism, Anti-Stalinism, Anarchism, Democratic Socialism

Build

Slim

George Orwell as seen in a press card portrait in 1943 (Branch of the National Union of Journalists (BNUJ) / archive.org / Public Domain)

Height

6 ft 2 in or 188 cm

Weight

72 kg or 158.5 lbs

Girlfriend / Spouse

George Orwell dated –

Eileen O’Shaughnessy (1935-1945) – He met Eileen O’Shaughnessy in early 1935 and they got married on June 9, 1936, at St Mary’s Church, Wallington, Hertfordshire. The couple tried to have children but eventually discovered that Orwell was sterile. They later adopted a three-week-old boy they named Richard Horatio in June 1944. Orwell and Eileen remained together until her death in 1945.

Sonia Brownell (1949-1950) – He married his 2nd wife Sonia Brownell on October 13, 1949. George Orwell died in 1950 just 3 months after their marriage.

Race / Ethnicity

White

George Orwell was of English and French descent.

Hair Color

Dark Brown

Eye Color

Blue

Sexual Orientation

Straight

Distinctive Features

Sported a pencil moustache

Religion

Atheism

George Orwell as seen in a passport photo during his time in Burma (Unknown Author / therebelkind.blogspot.com / Public Domain)

George Orwell Favorite Things

One Of His Favorite Locations – River Orwell in Suffolk

Source – Wikipedia

George Orwell Facts

He was born into a “lower-upper-middle class” family.

Although he was born in India, his mother took him to England when he was just 1 and she settled with her children at Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire in 1904.

For some time, George Orwell had a career in teaching as he taught at The Hawthorns High School in Hayes, West London.

He worked as a journalist for the BBC during the Second World War.

It is speculated that George Orwell might have been the first person to use the term “cold war” to refer to the state of tension between powers in his essay, “You and the Atom Bomb”, published in Tribune on October 19, 1945.

The adjective “Orwellian” refers to an attitude and a policy of control by propaganda, surveillance, misinformation, denial of truth, and manipulation of the past. The New York Times has said the term is “the most widely used adjective derived from the name of a modern writer”.

Many words and phrases from Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four have made their way to popular language and some of these words are: “Big Brother”, “Thought Police”, “Newspeak”, “Doublethink”, “Room 101”, “memory hole”, “unperson”, and “thoughtcrime”.

Some of the things he hated included modern furniture, the radio, central heating, big towns, and noise pollution.

Orwell was a heavy smoker.

Featured Image by BBC / penguinbooksindia.com / Public Domain

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