George Orwell - Timeline

GEORGE ORWELL - Timeline

• 25th June 1903 - George Orwell was born by the name Eric Arthur Blair in India.
• 1912 - Orwell was only a year old his mother moved back to England while his father stayed in India until 1912.
• 1911 - Orwell went to St Cyprian's School in Eastbourne.
• 1921 - Orwell joined the British police in Burma.
• 1928 - Orwell journeyed to Paris.
• 1932-1933 - Orwell worked as a teacher in a small private school.
• 1934 - Orwell got a part-time job in a second-hand bookshop.
• 1933 - Orwell's first book was published.
• 1934 - Orwell's first novel 'Burmese Days' was published.
• 1935 - Orwell had another novel published, it was called 'A Clergyman's Daughter'.
• 1936 - Orwell's book was followed by 'Keep the Aspidistra Flying'.
• George Orwell wrote a book about poverty in northern      England.
• Orwell had married Eileen.
• Orwell left to fight in the Spanish Civil War.
• 1937 - 'The Road to Wigan Pier' was published.
• 1938 - Orwell published 'A Homage to Catalonia'.
• 1938-1939 - Orwell spent the winter in Morocco.
• 1941 to 1943 - Orwell worked for the BBC.
• 1943 - Orwell became literary editor for the Tribune a left-wing magazine.
• 1945 - Orwell's wife, Eileen, passed away.
• Orwell's great satire 'Animal Farm' was published.
• 1949 - Orwell's masterpiece '1984' was published.
• George Orwell married his second wife.
• 21st January 1950 - George Orwell died at the age of 46.