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George Orwell is a literary legend. His terrifying, visionary novel 1984 raged against the evils of totalitarianism; the darkly satirical Animal Farm was an allegory of the Soviet Union. Both are considered amongst the greatest political works of the twentieth century.
Only now more than 70 years later and after seven biographies, all written by men, has it become clear that he had an unacknowledged collaborator, his wife Eileen O'Shaughnessy. Now comes the feminist reappraisal in the book,’ Wifedom’ by celebrated Australian author Anna Funder.
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