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Blair House

The author of Animal Farm and 1984 was born Eric Arthur Blair in 1903 in Motihari, Champaran district, [India,] where his father, Richard, served as a collector at a colonial opium factory.

The author spent only his first year at the house before his mother took him to England, but officials hope to capitalise on the connection.

An Orwell museum is planned, and funds are being raised by the local Rotary Club to renovate the cottage to “put Motihari on the map”.

The state government in Bihar backed the campaign by declaring the house a protected monument…

Margaret Soltan, December 29, 2009 4:35AM
Posted in: great writing

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One Response to “Blair House”

  1. david foster Says:

    I actually think Blair/Orwell was better as an essay writer than as a fiction writer…his fiction is good but his essays are excellent.

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