January
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At the front at Alcubierre
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end January
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Transferred to Independent Labour Party contingent
on Aragon front, later at Monflorite
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February - March
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Eileen Blair in Spain
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8 March
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The Road to Wigan
Pier published
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end April
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On leave in Barcelona
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10 May
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Returned to front
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20 May
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Wounded in throat
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14 June
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Collected discharge papers
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20-22 June
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In Barcelona, running from Communist police
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23 June
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Crossed into France
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July
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Back in Wallington
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mid-July
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Began Homage to
Catalonia
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Gollancz said he would not publish Homage to Catalonia |
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The New Statesman and Nation rejected
Orwell's review of The Spanish Cockpit
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Resumed writing for the New English Weekly
and Time and Tide
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1 September
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Signed contract with Fredric Warburg for Homage to Catalonia
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17 August
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A Clergyman's Daughter
published in New York
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6 December
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Told Leonard Moore he was planning Coming Up for Air
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end December
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Desmond Young offered him job on Lucknow Pioneer
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