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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 titular clergyman's daughter, whose life is turned upside down when she suffers an attack of amnesia.
- George Orwell
- 1935
A CLERGYMAN’S DAUGHTER, by George Orwell, locates its story in a small town in England during the early part of the 20th century. Dorothy is the clergyman’s pious daughter.
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Jan 7, 2022 · GEORGE ORWELL’s A Clergyman’s Daughter, published in 1935, is a novel featuring the sexual and economic repression of a young woman. The story begins in an East Anglian rectory, before moving through the hop fields of Kent and some insalubrious streets of London to a district described as a “repellent suburb”. The main character ...
A Clergyman's Daughter is a novel by George Orwell. It was published in 1935. It tells the story of a young woman called Dorothy Hare who loses her memory and finds herself lost in London. [1]
Orwell’s second novel, A Clergyman’s Daughter, ostensibly follows the eponymous Dorothy Hare as an attack of amnesia takes her into poverty, a police cell and employment at a school for girls.
His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. His novels and non-fiction include Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia .
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“The great fascination to me of A Clergyman’s Daughter is that although it’s published in the UK in 1935, it is essentially the same plot of Nineteen Eighty-Four, which doesn’t appear until fourteen years later. It’s about somebody who is spied upon, and eavesdropped upon, and oppressed by vast exterior forces they can do nothing about.
