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A review by nanc_282
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder
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.
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.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Infidelity, Misogyny, Medical content, and Abandonment
Moderate: Chronic illness, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, and Blood