George Orwell TASK 1: (week 3)

 1903-He was born Eric Arthur Blair 

1904- his mother moved back to England 

1911-  went to St Cyprian's School in Eastbourne.

1917-won a scholarship to Eton

1921- joined the British police in Burma

1927- dissatisfied and he resigned to a writter

1928-  journeyed to paris

1932-1933-worked as a teacher in a small private school

1933-his first book was published Down and Out in Paris and London

1934-first novel Burmese Days was published and got a part time job in a second hand bookshop

1935-A Clergyman's Daughter published

1936- married Eileen,commissioned to write a book about poverty in northern England,fight in the Spanish Civil War

1937-Wigan Pier published

1938-A Homage to Catalonia published.suffering from tuberculosis.

1938-1939 spent the winter  in Morocco

1939- Coming Up For Air was published

1941-1943 worked for bbc

1943-became literary editor for the Tribune a left wing magazine.

1945-Animal Farm was published

1949-masterpiece 1984 was published,married his second wife Sonia

21 January 1950 - died

achievements 

George Orwell decided to become a writer.

tunnnig points 

1933 his first book was published Down and Out in Paris and London.

1936 to fight in the Spanish Civil War.

1949 married his second wife Sonia