Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder

9 reviews

amyrose23's review against another edition

informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny

Moderate: Rape

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

khakipantsofsex's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Infidelity, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Grief, and War

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

kirstym25's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infidelity, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Chronic illness, Infertility, and Rape

esmem's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Terminal illness

Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault

larafrances's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Infertility, Infidelity, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Grief

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

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