6 January
|
Admitted to Cotswold Sanatorium, Cranham,
Gloucestershire, seriously ill with tuberculosis |
January
|
'Reflections on Gandhi' published in Partisan Review Vol. XVI,
No.1
|
during 1949
|
Wrote synopsis of 'A Smoking Room Story',
but only ever wrote four pages |
|
Projected long essay on Joseph Conrad, never
written
|
mid-February
|
Began article on Evelyn Waugh, never completed
|
March
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Corrected proofs of Nineteen Eighty-Four
|
9 April
|
Submitted last completed article for publication
|
April
|
Projected novel set in 1945,
never written
|
June
|
Nineteen Eighty-Four published
in London and New York |
July
|
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Book-of-the Month Club choice
|
August
|
Projected book of repinted essays |
3 September
|
Transferred to University College Hospital,
London |
13 October
|
Married Sonia Brownell in hospital |