But when he got to this grand public school, most of the life went out of him.
In a certain sense, he was paying his way by getting by on his brilliance as a young man. But practically, because his father was a fairly low-grade civil servant, as Orwell put it, they didn’t have enough money to do that.Īnd although Orwell went to Eton, the grandest of English public schools, he was only able to do so because he was clever enough to win a scholarship. That is, theoretically the Blair family were the kind of people who hunted and shot, had servants, and dressed for dinner. The definition that he gave of himself was that most of his expertise was theoretical. His father was a colonial civil servant who worked in the East. He was born in 1903 into what with characteristic precision he called “the lower-upper-middle classes” of British life.
In some ways, he was a very conventional product of his time.
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