Título: George Orwell
Seção: Southwold
Background: Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 - 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism. Orwell wrote literary criticism, poetry, fiction, and polemical journalism. He is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949).

Conteúdo: In December 1929, after nearly two years in Paris, Blair returned to England and went directly to his parents' house in Southwold, a coastal town in Suffolk, which remained his base for the next five years. The family was well established in the town and his sister Avril was running a tea-house there. He became acquainted with many local people, including Brenda Salkeld, the clergyman's daughter who worked as a gym-teacher at St Felix Girls' School in the town. Although Salkeld rejected his offer of marriage, she remained a friend and regular correspondent for many years. He also renewed friendships with older friends, such as Dennis Collings, whose girlfriend Eleanor Jacques was also to play a part in his life.  In early 1930 he stayed briefly in Bramley, Leeds, with his sister Marjorie and her husband Humphrey Dakin, who was as unappreciative of Blair as when they knew each other as children. Blair was writing reviews for Adelphi and acting as a private tutor to a disabled child at Southwold. He then became tutor to three young brothers, one of whom, Richard Peters, later became a distinguished academic. "His history in these years is marked by dualities and contrasts. There is Blair leading a respectable, outwardly eventless life at his parents' house in Southwold, writing; then in contrast, there is Blair as Burton (the name he used in his down-and-out episodes) in search of experience in the kips and spikes, in the East End, on the road, and in the hop fields of Kent." H

user: Who/What was Southwold?

assistant: Blair returned to England and went directly to his parents' house in Southwold, a coastal town in Suffolk,

user: How long did he stay in Southwold?

assistant: which remained his base for the next five years.

user: What did he do there?

assistant: He then became tutor to three young brothers,

user: did he do anything else there?

assistant: " He went painting and bathing on the beach, and there he met Mabel and Francis Fierz, who later influenced his career.

user: How did they influence his career?

assistant: Over the next year he visited them in London, often meeting their friend Max Plowman.

user: Did he have relationships with anyone else there?

assistant: He became acquainted with many local people, including Brenda Salkeld, the clergyman's daughter

user: Was there anything else interesting from the article?

assistant: Blair ended the year by deliberately getting himself arrested, so that he could experience Christmas in prison,

user: Why did he want to experience Christmas in prison?

assistant: the authorities did not regard his "drunk and disorderly" behaviour as imprisonable, and he returned home to Southwold after two days in a police cell.