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Marrakech by orwell3/16/2024 ![]() ![]() Myers and, after Orwell’s death, Myers’ estate was repaid from the proceeds of “Animal Farm.” The couple arrived in Marrakech on September 14, 1938. Orwell knew that the identity of his creditor was the novelist L.H. Orwell and Eileen had to rely on a loan of £300 from an anonymous donor in order to finance their trip to Morocco. His dryly comic essay “ Confessions of a Book Reviewer” springs particularly to mind. The drudgery and faint humiliation of a writer’s existence, today as in his time, was captured brilliantly by Orwell in much of his work. Orwell and his wife, Eileen Blair (Orwell’s real name was Eric Arthur Blair), were in dire financial straits. ![]() His doctors told him that it would be best for him to spend the following winter in a warm climate. ![]() It was suspected that he was suffering from tuberculosis, the malady that would later cut his life short at the age of 46. George Orwell was admitted to a hospital in England on March 15, 1938. ![]()
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