Eileen – An Oxford Photograph

Sylvia Topp, who is writing the biography of Eileen O’Shaughnessy, has obtained a group photograph of Eileen’s year at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, taken in 1925, over a decade before Eileen and George Orwell married. This has previously been unknown.

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Examine this photograph. Who do you think is the woman who would join George Orwell in Barcelona in the fight against Fascism and later still help him in the writing of Animal Farm?

To help you here are the figures in silhouette and numbered.

Who is Eileen?

Please use the comment box at the bottom of this page to leave your answer.

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Photograph supplied by Sylvia Topp.

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Uploaded January 30th 2018