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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
LevelItem
Reference Number ORWELL/H/1/18/3
TitleLetter from Mrs Hastings Bonora
Date24 July 1936
DescriptionTypescript letter to George Orwell, originally enclosing the clipping of the review for '<i>Action</i>, no permission having been received, which compares him to Maxim Gorky (in describing "human suffering and degradation" without proposing a solution), and also includes an explicitly Fascist rejection of Gordon Comstock (Hero of '<i>Keep the Aspidistra Flying</i>') and, more generally, Orwell's bookshops, landladies and clergy, (1f).
Extent1 letter
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsThe papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
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