22 January
|
Sent ms of Critical
Essays to Moore |
early February
|
Finished 'In Defence of P.G. Wodehouse',
and added it to Critical Essays |
February
|
Gave up literary editorship of Tribune |
15 February
|
Went to Paris as war correspondent for
The Observer and the Manchester Evening News.
|
|
Stayed at Hotel Scribe
|
late March
|
Went to Cologne
|
29 March
|
Eileen died in Newcastle
|
.
|
Returned to England
|
8 April
|
Returned to Paris, then Nuremberg and Stuttgart
|
8 May
|
VE Day. In Paris
|
mid-May
|
In Austria
|
24 May
|
In London
|
June - July
|
General Election correspondent for The
Observer
|
3 July
|
Contract for four long articles in Polemic
|
|
Told Moore he was writing Nineteen Eighty-Four
|
August
|
Vice-chairman Freedom Defence Committee
|
11 August
|
wrote London Letter, published in Partisan Review
|
17 August
|
Animal Farm
published
|
10 - 22 September
|
On Jura, Hebrides
|
late September
|
Resumed writing for Tribune, The Observer,
and the Manchester Evening News
|
Winter
|
Review of Herbert Read A Coat of Many Colours:
Occasional Essays published in Poetry Quarterly
|
Christmas
|
In North Wales, at Arthur Koestler's house,
with Richard
|