Remembering George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair
1903, June 25. Motihari, Bengal, India.
1950, January 21. University Hospital, London, England

Chronology  1948
Chronology  taken from "George Orwell - A Bibliography", by Gillian Fenwick

late January
Reviewing again
April
Corrected proofs for new edition of Burmese Days
13 May
First volume of Uniform Edition, Coming Up for Air published 
May
Began second draft of Nineteen Eighty-Four
July
'The Sanctified Sinner' review of Graham Greene The Heart of the Matter published in The New Yorker
28 July
Returned to Jura
August - November
Writing Nineteen Eighty-Four
September
Suffered relapse
November
Retyped Nineteen Eighty-Four
15 November
British Pamphleteers published
4 December
Sent Nineteen Eighty-Four to Moore
December
Gave up Canonbury Square flat


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