Free George Orwell: A Life in Letters by Peter Davison

Anatole France.
    22 August 1 943 : ‘I am definitely leaving it [the BBC] probably in about three
months’.
    September 1943 : Review: ‘Gandhi in Mayfair’, Horizon .
    9 September 1943 : Radio play adapted from The Fox by Ignazio Silone.
    6 October 1943 : Radio: featurised story: ‘A Slip Under the Microscope’ by H.G. Wells.
    17 October 1943 : Radio talk: Macbeth .
    18 November 1 943 : Radio dramatization: The Emperor’s New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen.
    18 November 1943 : Talking to India , Allen & Unwin, ed. and introduced by Orwell.
    21 November 1943 : Radio talk: Lady Windermere’s Fan .
    23 November 1943 : Leaves the BBC and joins Tribune as Literary Editor. Leaves Home Guard on medical grounds.
    November 1 943–February 1944 : Writes Animal Farm.
    26 November 1943 : ‘Mark Twain – The Licensed Jester’, Tribune.
    2 December 1943 : Broadcast to USA, ‘Any Questions’ on Wigan Pier.
    3 December 1943 : First of 80 personal columns entitled ‘As I Please’, Tribune, 59 published to 16.2.45; remainder 8.11.46 to 4.4.47.
    24 December 1943 : ‘Can Socialists be Happy?’ as by ‘John Freeman’, Tribune.
    15 January 1944 : ‘London Letter’, Partisan Review .
    21 January 1944 : Poem: ‘Memories of the Blitz’, Tribune.
    13 February 1944 : ‘A Hundred Up’ (centenary of Martin Chuzzlewit ], Observer.
    1 7 April 1944 : ‘London Letter’, Partisan Review .
    May 1944 : Finishes The English People ; published by Collins, August 1947.
    14 May 1944 : The Orwells’ son (adopted June 1 944) born; christened Richard Horatio Blair.
    Summer 1944 : Visits Jura and sees Barnhill.
    ‘Propaganda and Demotic Speech’, Persuasion.
    28 June 1944 : The Orwells’ flat bombed; move to Inez Holden’s flat near Baker St, London.
    16 July 1944 : ‘The Eight Years of War: Spanish Memories’, Observer.
    24 July 1944 : ‘London Letter’, Partisan Review .
    7 September 1944 : ‘How Long is a Short Story?’, Manchester Evening News.
    22 September 1944 : ‘Tobias Smollett: Scotland’s Best Novelist’, Tribune.
    October 1944 : ‘Raffles and Miss Blandish’, Horizon.
    Early October 1944 : They move to 27b Canonbury Square, Islington, London, N1.
    October (?) 1944 : ‘London Letter’, Partisan Review .
    19 October 1944 : ‘Home Guard Lessons for the Future’, Horizon .
    October/November 1944 : ‘Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali’, Saturday Book, 4. Orwell’s article is physically sliced out – though its title is still indexed.
    22 December 1 944 : ‘Oysters and Brown Stout’ (on Thackeray), Tribune .
    15 February–end March 1945 : War Correspondent for the Observer and Manchester Evening News, France, Germany, and Austria.
    25 February 1 945 : ‘Paris Puts a Gay Face on her Miseries’, Observer; mentions visiting the rue de Pot de Fer where he lodged in 1928–29.
    28 February 1945 : ‘Inside the Papers in Paris’, Manchester Evening News .
    March 1945 : ‘Poetry and the Microphone’, New Saxon Pamphlets (written autumn 1943).
    4 March 1945 : ‘Occupation’s Effect on French Outlook’, Observer .
    7 March 1945 : ‘The Political Aims of the French Resistance’, Manchester Evening News.
    11 March 1 945 : ‘Clerical Party may Re-emerge in France: Educational Controversy’, Observer .
    18 March 1945 : ‘De Gaulle Intends to Keep Indo-China: But French Apathetic on Empire’, Observer.
    20 March 1945 : ‘The French Believe we have had a Revolution’, Manchester Evening News.
    25 March 1 945 : Eileen Blair signs her Will.
    25 March 1945 : ‘Creating Order out of Cologne Chaos: Water Supplied from Carts’, Observer .
    29 March 1945 : Eileen Blair dies under anaesthetic. Orwell returns to England.
    31 March 19 45 : Signs first of his ‘Notes for my Literary Executor’.
    April 1945 : ‘Antisemitism in Britain’, Contemporary Jewish Chronicle.
    8 April–24 May 1945 : Returns to France, Germany and Austria as War Correspondent.
    8 April 1945 : ‘Future of a Ruined Germany: