A review by leanneymu
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder

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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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