George Orwell Biography Timeline

1903 - born in India
1911 - went to St Cyprian's school, Eastbourne
1917 - won a scholarship
1921 - joined the British police in Burma
1927 - resigned
1928 - journeyed to Paris
1932-1933 - worked as a teacher
1933 - first book "Burmese Days"published in Paris and London
1934 - got a part time job in a bookshop
1934 - first novel published
1935 - another novel published
1936 - married Eileen
1936 - wrote a book  about poverty in northern England
1937 - Road to Wigan Pier published
1938 - wrote a Homage to Catalonia
1938 - suffering from Tuberculosis
1938-1939 - spend winter in Morocco
1939 - Coming Up For Air novel published
1941 -1943 worked for the BBC
1943 - became literary editor
1945 - his great satire Animal Farm published
1949 - his Masterpiece 1984 published
1949 - married his second wife
1950 - died