George Orwell's timeline

 

• Read George Orwell's biography and do the timeline and also turning points and achievements

1903- born in India

1911- studied St Cyprian in Eastbourne

1912- his mother back to England and he stayed with his dad

1917- he won a scholarship to Eton

1921- join British police in Burma
1928- he journeyed to Paris

1932-1933- worked as a teacher in a small private school

1933- his first book was published Down and Out in Paris and London

1934- got a part time job in a second hand bookshop

1934- his first novel Burmese Days was published

1935- A Clergyman's Daughter published. 

1936- by Keep the Aspidistra Flying

1936- Orwell married Eileen. (She died in 1945)

1936- commissioned to write a book about poverty in northern England

1936-  Socialist left for Spain to fight in the Spanish Civil War 

1937- The Road to Wigan Pier was published 

1938- A Homage to Catalonia was published

1938- he was suffering from tuberculosis

1938-1939 he spent the winter in Morocco

1939-  Coming Up For Air was published

1941-1943- he worked for the BBC

1943- he became literary editor for the Tribune a left wing magazine

1945- Animal Farm was published.

1949- he married his second wife Sonia

1950- he died