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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.
Eric & Us [1] 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 was horrified by the denouement of Nineteen Eighty-Four. She interpreted Julia’s fate as an act of vengeance directed at herself. “In the end,” she complained to June Finlay, “he absolutely destroys me, like a man in hobnailed boots stamping on a spider.
30 de mai. de 2019 · Buddicom, Jacintha Laura May. Publication date 1974 Topics Orwell, George, 1903-1950 -- Biography -- Youth, Buddicom family Publisher
28 de mai. 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”.
4 de dez. de 2021 · Eric Blair had made friends with the three Buddicom children – Jacintha, Prosper and Guinever – during a stunning English summer on the eve of war when they lived at Shiplake, near Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire.
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.
