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British Council booklet (XVIII, 2954 201–13).
    April 1946 : ‘Politics and the English Language’, Horizon.
    12 April 1 946 : ‘Some Thoughts on the Common Toad’, Tribune .
    26 April 1946 : ‘A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray’, Tribune.
    Mid-April 1946 : Gives up journalism for six months to concentrate on Nineteen Eighty-Four.
    May 1 946 : ‘Second Thoughts on James Burnham’, Politics.
    3 May 1946 : Death of Marjorie Dakin, Orwell’s elder sister.
    3 May 1946 : ‘Confessions of a Book Reviewer’, Tribune .
    Early May 1946 : Last ‘London Letter’, Partisan Review .
    23 May–13 October 1946 : Rents Barnhill on Jura.
    Summer 1946 : ‘Why I Write’, Gangrel .
    9 July 1946 : Radio Play: ‘Little Red Riding Hood’, BBC Children’s Hour .
    14 August 1 946 : ‘The True Pattern of H.G. Wells’, Manchester Evening News .
    26 September 1946 : Has ‘only done about fifty pages [of Nineteen Eighty-Four ]’.
    September–October 1946 : ‘Politics vs. Literature’, Polemic .
    14 October 1 946–10 April 1947 : At 27b Canonbury Square, London.
    29 October 1946 : BBC Pamphlets No 2: Books and Authors (containing Orwell’s ‘Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man ’) and No 3: Landmarks in American Literature (containing Orwell’s ‘Jack London’), published by Oxford University Press, Bombay.
    November 1946 : Introduction to Jack London, Love of Life and Other Stories , Paul Elek.
    November 1946 : ‘How the Poor Die’, Now .
    22 November 1946 : ‘Riding Down from Bangor’ (review of Helen’s Babies ), Tribune.
    January 1947 : ‘Arthur Koestler’, Focus (written September 1944).
    14 January 1 947 : Radio play: Orwell’s adaptation of Animal Farm , BBC Third Programme.
    March 1947 : ‘Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool’, Polemic .
    4 April 1947 : 80th and last ‘As I Please’ column, Tribune. Orwell intended only to suspend his column.
    11 April–20 December 1947 : At Barnhill, Jura, writing Nineteen Eighty-Four . Often ill.
    31 May 1947 : Sends Warburg version of ‘Such, Such Were the Joys’; finalised about May 1948.
    July/August 1947 : ‘Towards European Unity’, Partisan Review .
    August 1947 : The English People published by Collins in the series Britain in Pictures .
    September 1947 : Gives up lease of The Stores, Wallington.
    31 October 1947 : So ill that he has to work in bed.
    7 November 1947 : First draft of Nineteen Eighty-Four completed.
    30 November 1947 : ‘Profile: Krishna Menon’ by David Astor, with Orwell, Observer.
    20 December–28 July 1948 : Patient in Hairmyres Hospital, East Kilbride, Glasgow, with TB.
    March 1948 : Writes ‘Writers and Leviathan’ for Politics and Letters ; when that fails it is published in New Leader, New York, 19 June 1948.
    May 1948 : Starts second draft of Nineteen Eighty-Four .
    Writes ‘Britain’s Left-Wing Press’ for The Progressive.
    Writes ‘George Gissing’ for Politics and Letters , published London Magazine, June 1960. About this time makes final amendments to typescript of ‘Such, Such Were the Joys’.
    13 May 1948 : Coming Up for Air published as first volume of Secker’s Uniform Edition.
    28 July 194 8– c . 2 January 1949 : At Barnhill, Jura.
    28 August 1948 : ‘The Writer’s Dilemma’ (review of The Writer and Politics by George Woodcock), Observer .
    Autumn 1948 : Writes ‘Reflections on Gandhi’, published in Partisan Review , June 1949.
    October 1948 : ‘Britain’s Struggle for Survival: The Labour Government after Three Years’, Commentary .
    Early November 1948 : Finishes writing Nineteen Eighty-Four and sets about typing manuscript.
    15 November 1948 : Introduction to British Pamphleteers , vol. 1 (written spring 1947), Allan Wingate.
    4 December 1948 : Completes typing fair copy of Nineteen Eighty-Four and posts typescript. Has serious relapse.
    December 1948 : Gives up lease of his flat in Canonbury Square, Islington.
    January 1949 : Burmese Days published as second volume of Secker’s Uniform Edition.
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