GEORGE ORWELL

Prosper and Guinever Buddicom with Eric Blair aka George Orwell (right)

Jeffrey Meyers  refers to "a crush Orwell had on a younger boy at Eton and echoes of it later in Orwell's life." 

The Wintry Orwell

Orwell admitted to his gay friend Cyril Connelly that he fancied a male friend of his.


George Orwell, author of 1984 and Animal Farm with his adopted son Richard Blair.

"The only really alluring girl in Orwell's fiction, the minx Elizabeth Lackersteen in Burmese Days, is depicted as extremely boyish in physique."

"George Orwell's relationship with the female sex was in general a distraught one."

GEORGE ORWELL

In The Road To Wigan Pier, Orwell wrote about coal miners "Below, when you see them stripped, all, old and young, they have splendid bodies, with every muscle defined and wonderfully small waists."



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