Clergyman's

While I was coming up with the list I remembered reading The Clergyman's Daughter as a youngun' and could have sworn it was George Eliot, only to find out it was George Orwell.

Summer Reading List Brigindo 2009

His work is well represented in British public collections, most notably by the nineteen paintings at the Wolverhampton Art Gallery, including The Clergyman's Visit and Preparing for Dinner, both c.1852; The Dismayed Artist, 1866; The Chimney Sweep, 1866; Baby's Birthday, 1867; and Sorrowful News, 1872.

Archive 2008-04-01 Hermes 2008

The Raimbault letters illuminate Orwell's attitude to his recently published novel, A Clergyman's Daughter, which he came to regard as unworthy of republication.

The Lost Orwell, ed Peter Davison 2006

Early letters to his girlfriend Brenda Salkeld, the heroine of A Clergyman's Daughter, give us the lustful Orwell, which those preferring the image of holy St George should avoid reading.

The Lost Orwell, ed Peter Davison 2006

It was in this year that he published A Clergyman's Daughter and Burmese Days.

George Orwell's Langford Court flat is for sale 2005

"He was the first serious writer I found out about when I picked up a copy of a not particularly good novel A Clergyman's Daughter."

Writer discovers 'first Orwell film' 2003

All of these detours, of course, provided the experiences that ended up in his brilliant autobiographical essays (like "Bookshop Memories") as well as two novels that are generally ignored but are still worth reading, Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936) and A Clergyman's Daughter (1935).

My Own Private Orwell: Why the high priest of dystopia still matters 2003

Burmese Days is cod-Maugham; A Clergyman's Daughter is sub-Joyce; Keep the

The saint of common decency 2003

Christopher Hitchens Well, I can't do much with The Clergyman's Daughter but it was, it was a little better than I'd remembered it, it was the one I least enjoyed rereading, but I think Burmese Days is a very good start, and I've always loved Coming Up For Air.

Christopher Hitchens on George Orwell 2002

Mr. MEYERS: "A Clergyman's Daughter" was a-- his weakest book, sort of slightly autobi -- autobiographical novel.

Orwell: Wintry Conscience of a Generation 2001