A work admired by George Orwell, whose plagiarism by W. A. Darlington he deplored A Victorian author that George Orwell knew well was F. Anstey. In his essay on humourous writers, ‘Funny But Not Vulgar’ (July 1945), he praised Anstey’s Vice Versa (filmed several times). Anstey’s name, though, had come up years before. In January … Continue reading The Brass Bottle of 1900