A Clergyman’s Daughter

By George Orwell

George Orwell’s second novel, "A Clergyman’s Daughter" was published in March 1935.

Intimidated by her father, the rector of Knype Hill, Dorothy Hare performs her submissive roles of dutiful daughter and bullied housekeeper. Her thoughts are taken up with the costumes she is making for the church school play, by the hopelessness of preaching to the poor and by debts she cannot pay in 1930s Depression England. Suddenly her routine shatters and Dorothy finds herself down and out in London. She is wearing silk stockings, has money in her pocket and cannot remember her name. 
The novel follows the eponymous Dorothy as an attack of amnesia takes her into poverty, a police cell and employment at a school for girls. Though she regains her life as a clergyman’s daughter, she has lost...

Orwell leads us through a landscape of unemployment, poverty and hunger, where Dorothy's faith is challenged by a social reality that changes her life. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: E-BOOKARAMA
• Release date: Jul 11, 2023
• ISBN: 9788835384830

George Orwell

George Orwell (1903–1950), the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, was an English novelist, essayist, and critic. He was born in India and educated at Eton. After service with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, he returned to Europe to earn his living by writing. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of 1984 (1949), which brought him worldwide fame.