George Orwell: A Life in Letters (109 page)

Eileen sitting on the wall of the villa which she and Orwell

rented outside Marrakech, Morocco, 1938.

Orwell milking his goat in Morocco,

helped by Mahdjoub Mahommed.

Three of the five British and American French Foreign Legionnaires

who visited the Orwells in Marrakech.

Orwell’s Home Guard section. Orwell is in the back row on the far right.

Eileen c. 1941.

Orwell with his son,

Richard, at their flat in

Canonbury Square, Islington.

Orwell was a fi
ne shot with a rifle and, surprisingly, a catapult,
as here, photographed by his wife, Eileen, in French Morocco.

Sonia Orwell in the Horizon office on her last day there, shortly after her marriage to Orwell on 13 October 1949. Also facing the camera is Lys Lubbock.

Barnhill, Jura. Orwell’s large vegetable and fruit garden lies at the back of the house.