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George Orwell is famous for his novels, 1984 and Animal Farm. What is probably often not mentioned is the fact that he married his second wife, Sonia Brownell, three months before he died.
Many people had accused Sonia of being a gold digger and it was pretty easy to jump to conclusions with the timing of their marriage, and the fact that Orwell left his vast fortune and estate to her.
However, according to the biography by Hilary Spurling titled "The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell", Sonia died penniless. More than that, she died fighting to protect her late husband's works against Jack Harrison, Orwell's accountant, the man they trusted but who defrauded them.
She won her lawsuit against him and gave all the rights to Orwell's estate to his adopted son Richard. Two weeks later, she died.
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