Monday, July 11, 2022

"'What I am really asking is whether you would like to be the widow of a literary man.'"

     George Orwell, proposing by letter (dated 18 April 1946) to Anne Popham, who "was not swept off her feet."  As quoted in Dorian Lynskey, Ministry of truth:  the biography of George Orwell's 1984 (New York:  Doubleday, 2019), 147, citing CW XVIII, p. 153.

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