Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder

9 reviews

baratheonbooks's review against another edition

emotional informative sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness and Blood

Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual harassment

labiblidelucie's review against another edition

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Mental illness, Sexism, Terminal illness, and Blood

Moderate: Homophobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Grief, and Sexual harassment

leanneymu's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

A fascinating biography of Eileen Blair, George Orwell's first wife, who was written out of his story by subsequent biographers of Orwell, despite the fact that she did LOADS of the work to ensure that Orwell was able to write his masterpieces. I love books that restablished maligned women, and this book is a magic trick, essentially re-instating the reputation of a women who was vanished out of history by the systematic misogeny of 1930s-40s England. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Blood, Sexual harassment, and War

jouljet's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infidelity, and Blood

samfictiondistilling's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

Beautifully written and so informative. I will be forever grateful to Anna Funder for the work that went into this book and for the story of the other side of Orwell.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Chronic illness, Infidelity, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Sexual harassment, and War

schopflin's review against another edition

medium-paced

5.0

I absolutely loved this. It's in what seems to be a new type of writing where the very essence of telling stories is examined. It's beautifully done and I feel I am familiar with Funder's version of Eileen while also accepting that other versions might exist. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault and Blood

rhi_'s review against another edition

dark reflective sad slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, and Medical content

Moderate: Chronic illness, Sexual assault, Blood, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and War

nanc_282's review against another edition

informative sad medium-paced

4.0

It’s difficult to read this book and not think about all the literary men and the unacknowledged work of the women in their lives, Dorothy Wordsworth, Mary Shelley,
Who listen, edited, organised a household to create space for men to write. For me, the real success of this book, is to look at the life of Eileen Blair and consider how her ‘Wifedom’ under pinned George Orwell’s literary career. 
It’s impossible not to have to reconsider Orwell’s legacy in view of what this book reveals.
Anna Funder’s autoethnographic sections are excellent.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Misogyny, Medical content, and Abandonment

Moderate: Chronic illness, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, and Blood

tinyoceankingdoms's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness and Blood

Moderate: Infidelity and War

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Infertility