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George Orwell and the Battle for Animal Farm

"This is the story of how George Orwell wrote Animal Farm, the mountain he had to climb to get it published, and the enormous personal tragedy which ran beneath." In this exclusive new short film, Orwell’s biographer DJ Taylor and George Orwell’s son, Richard Blair, celebrate the 75th anniversary of the book’s publication by unpacking the extraordinary story behind the story, from the book’s initial rejection by several publishers (for reasons of political expediency) to the adoption of George and Eileen’s son, Richard, and Eileen’s unexpected death soon after. “The two great crises of Orwell’s life, the professional and the personal,” Taylor explains, “are running together in the spring of 1945.” 'Animal Farm: A Fairy Story' was eventually published by Secker and Warburg on the 17th August 1945, and is widely regarded as one of the great political works of twentieth century literature. The Orwell Archive is held at Special Collections, University College London. The Foundation would like to thank Sarah Aitchison and Rebecca Sims for their help identifying the documents referenced in the film, many of which are held in the archive itself. The landing page for the digitised content from the collection is here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/digital... - The letter to Gleb Struve, February 1944, on Animal Farm being 'so not OK politically' is catalogued at ORWELL/G/2/15/1 and digitised here: https://digital-collections.ucl.ac.uk... - The letter from T S Eliot rejecting Animal Farm is catalogued at ORWELL/H/1/63/2. The letter is discussed on the British Library website: https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/le...