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Jacintha Laura May Buddicom (10 May 1901 – 4 November 1993) [1] was an English poet and a childhood friend of George Orwell (Eric Blair). She met Blair in 1914 and they developed a shared interest in poetry, but she lost touch with him after he departed for Burma in 1922, and later she disputed Blair's writings about his own childhood.
25 de jun. de 2015 · How a childhood romance between Eric Blair (George Orwell) and Jacintha Buddicom was ruined by a violent assault and a secret pregnancy. Learn about their tragic story and its impact on Orwell's fiction.
28 de may. de 2017 · Jacintha Buddicom was concerned to refute what she considered the myth of Eric Blair’s unhappy childhood—a myth largely based, of course, on Orwell’s own writings, especially the late essay “Such Such Were the Joys”.
The Orwell Society is a website dedicated to the life and works of George Orwell. It features articles about Jacintha Buddicom, Orwell's wife and muse, and her role in his writing and personal life.
Eric & Us is a 1974 memoir by Jacintha Buddicom recalling her childhood friendship with Eric Blair, the real name of author George Orwell. Buddicom first met Blair when he was eleven and he became very close to her family.
Jacintha Buddicom: Teenage sweetheart. And what, in return, did the women think of Orwell?
The boy was eleven-year-old Eric Blair, better known today as George Orwell (June 25, 1903–January 21, 1950), and the neighboring family were the Buddicoms, whose three children — Jacintha, Prosper, and Guinever — became young Eric’s favorite playmates.
