A Clergyman's Daughter is a 1935 novel by English author George Orwell. It tells the story of Dorothy Hare, the clergyman's daughter of the title, whose life is turned upside-down when she suffers an attack of amnesia. It is Orwell's most formally experimental novel, featuring a chapter written entirely in dramatic form, but he was never satisfied with it and he left instructions that after his death it was not to be reprinted.
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A Clergyman's Daughter is a 1935 novel by English author George Orwell. It tells the story of Dorothy Hare, the clergyman's daughter of the title, whose life is turned upside-down when she suffers an attack of amnesia. It is Orwell's most formally experimental novel, featuring a chapter written entirely in dramatic form, but he was never satisfied with it and he left instructions that after his death it was not to be reprinted.
After Orwell returned from Paris in December 1929, he used his parents' house in Southwold as his base for the next five years. Southwold is a small provincial town on the coast of East Anglia.The family was well established in the local community and he became acquainted with many local people. His sister Avril was running a tea shop in the town. Brenda Salkeld, a gym teacher at St Felix School and the daughter of a clergyman was to remain a friend and regular correspondent about his work for many years, although she rejected his proposal of marriage.
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