Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life, which tells of the struggles of the 1984 author's wife Eileen O'Shaughnessy, was published in August.

A previous version of this article misidentified the woman in the top photo as George Orwell’s first wife, Eileen. She is his second wife, Sonia. The photo of Sonia Orwell has been removed from ...

George Orwell, the inventor of the Ministry of Love and Room 101 in “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” was married for the second time in Room 65 of University College Hospital in London. His sickbed was ...

George Orwell meant his novel to be a warning, not a prediction—and that warning is relevant in new and unsettling ways.

George Orwell was a “sadistic, misogynistic, homophobic, sometimes violent” man who wrote women out of his story, according to a biographer of his wife.

A photo appearing to show a CCTV camera outside the former home of George Orwell has been edited. The image shows a large camera with a sign saying “24 hour CCTV recording in operation” in front of a ...

The hard part is figuring out what to praise first about this concise biography of the vivacious woman who married the author of 1984 on his deathbed, yet who was far more than just the Widow Orwell.

DJ Taylor published Orwell: The Lifein 2003. Now he offers a new biography that draws upon new materials that have surfaced since (Orwell’s letters to women he was infatuated with, for instance ...

Seventy-five years on from the publication of George Orwell’s groundbreaking novel 1984, ’ thrilling new stage version by Ryan Craig and directed by Lindsay Posner, will play Theatre Royal ...