Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
(Kindle Book, OverDrive Read)
Author:
Published:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2023
Format:
Kindle Book, OverDrive Read
Status:
Checked Out
Description
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION FINALIST • This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century —and a probing consideration of what it means to be a wife and a writer in the modern world
"Simply, a masterpiece...Funder not only re-makes the art of biography, she resurrects a woman in full." —Geraldine Brooks, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, author of Horse
At the end of summer 2017, Anna Funder found herself at a moment of peak overload. Family obligations and household responsibilities were crushing her soul and taking her away from her writing deadlines. She needed help, and George Orwell came to her rescue.
"I’ve always loved Orwell," Funder writes, "his self-deprecating humour, his laser vision about how power works, and who it works on." So after rereading and savoring books Orwell had written, she devoured six major biographies tracing his life and work. But then she read about his forgotten wife, and it was a revelation.
Eileen O’Shaughnessy married Orwell in 1936. O’Shaughnessy was a writer herself, and her literary brilliance not only shaped Orwell’s work, but her practical common sense saved his life. But why and how, Funder wondered, was she written out of their story? Using newly discovered letters from Eileen to her best friend, Funder re-creates the Orwells’ marriage, through the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War in London. As she peeks behind the curtain of Orwell’s private life she is led to question what it takes to be a writer—and what it is to be a wife.
A breathtakingly intimate view of one of the most important literary marriages of the twentieth century, Wifedom speaks to our present moment as much as it illuminates the past. Genre-bending and utterly original, it is an ode to the unsung work of women everywhere.
"Simply, a masterpiece...Funder not only re-makes the art of biography, she resurrects a woman in full." —Geraldine Brooks, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, author of Horse
At the end of summer 2017, Anna Funder found herself at a moment of peak overload. Family obligations and household responsibilities were crushing her soul and taking her away from her writing deadlines. She needed help, and George Orwell came to her rescue.
"I’ve always loved Orwell," Funder writes, "his self-deprecating humour, his laser vision about how power works, and who it works on." So after rereading and savoring books Orwell had written, she devoured six major biographies tracing his life and work. But then she read about his forgotten wife, and it was a revelation.
Eileen O’Shaughnessy married Orwell in 1936. O’Shaughnessy was a writer herself, and her literary brilliance not only shaped Orwell’s work, but her practical common sense saved his life. But why and how, Funder wondered, was she written out of their story? Using newly discovered letters from Eileen to her best friend, Funder re-creates the Orwells’ marriage, through the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War in London. As she peeks behind the curtain of Orwell’s private life she is led to question what it takes to be a writer—and what it is to be a wife.
A breathtakingly intimate view of one of the most important literary marriages of the twentieth century, Wifedom speaks to our present moment as much as it illuminates the past. Genre-bending and utterly original, it is an ode to the unsung work of women everywhere.
Formats
Kindle Book
Works on Kindles and devices with a Kindle app installed.
OverDrive Read
Need Help?
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
More Copies In Prospector
Loading Prospector Copies...
More Details
Street Date:
08/22/2023
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780593320693
ASIN:
B0BF8RQZFZ
Reviews from GoodReads
Loading GoodReads Reviews.
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)
Anna Funder. (2023). Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Anna Funder. 2023. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Anna Funder, Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2023.
MLA Citation (style guide)Anna Funder. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2023.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
Copy Details
| Library | Owned | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Shared Digital Collection | 1 | 0 |
| Broomfield Library | 0 | 0 |
Staff View
Grouped Work ID:
144aa702-005a-d022-2348-6d09e8bc7192
QR Code
API Extraction Dates
Needs Update?:
No
Date Added:
Aug 31, 2023 17:27:14
Date Updated:
Aug 31, 2023 17:27:14
Last Metadata Check:
Feb 03, 2025 18:09:07
Last Metadata Change:
Jan 22, 2025 12:41:46
Last Availability Check:
Feb 03, 2025 18:09:09
Last Availability Change:
Jan 22, 2025 12:41:47
Last Grouped Work Modification Time:
Feb 04, 2025 01:37:20
OverDrive Product Record
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{36DD0D36-D119-4A46-BF91-3CC1D099BC5F}IMG100.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0111-1/{36DD0D36-D119-4A46-BF91-3CC1D099BC5F}IMG200.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0111-1/{36DD0D36-D119-4A46-BF91-3CC1D099BC5F}IMG150.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0111-1/{36DD0D36-D119-4A46-BF91-3CC1D099BC5F}IMG400.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- formats
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780593320693
- name: Adobe EPUB eBook
- id: ebook-epub-adobe
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: ASIN
- value: B0BF8RQZFZ
- name: Kindle Book
- id: ebook-kindle
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780593320693
- name: OverDrive Read
- id: ebook-overdrive
- identifiers:
- otherFormatIdentifiers
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780593320686
- mediaType
- eBook
- primaryCreator
- role: Author
- name: Anna Funder
- isOwnedByCollections
- True
- title
- Wifedom
- dateAdded
- 2023-09-01T01:17:00Z
- contentDetails
- href: https://link.overdrive.com?websiteID=114&titleID=9236661
- type: text/html
- account:
- name: Front Range Downloadable Library (CO)
- id: 1100
- sortTitle
- Wifedom Mrs Orwells Invisible Life
- crossRefId
- 9236661
- subtitle
- Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
- id
- 36DD0D36-D119-4A46-BF91-3CC1D099BC5F
- starRating
- 5
OverDrive MetaData
- isPublicDomain
- False
- formats
- fileName: Wifedom_9236661
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 0
- identifiers:
- type: ASIN
- value: B0BF8RQZFZ
- name: Kindle Book
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-kindle
- onSaleDate: 8/22/2023
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=36dd0d36-d119-4a46-bf91-3cc1d099bc5f&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- fileName: Wifedom_9780593320693_9236661
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 0
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780593320693
- name: OverDrive Read
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-overdrive
- onSaleDate: 8/22/2023
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=36dd0d36-d119-4a46-bf91-3cc1d099bc5f&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- keywords
- value: Biography
- value: culture
- value: bestsellers
- value: feminism
- value: George Orwell
- value: best sellers
- value: women in history
- value: Best books
- value: Literary gifts
- value: inspirational books for women
- value: feminism books
- value: women's history month
- value: feminist books
- value: feminist book
- value: sociology books
- value: misogynist
- value: Anna Funder
- value: non fiction books best sellers
- value: good books for women
- value: biographies of women
- value: best nonfiction books
- value: feminist thought
- value: about women
- value: new york times best sellers 2023
- value: wifedom mrs. orwell's invisible life anna funder
- value: wifedom anna funder
- value: wifedom
- value: wifedom book
- creators
- role: Author
- fileAs: Funder, Anna
- bioText: ANNA FUNDER is the author of Stasiland and All That I Am, and the novella The Girl with the Dogs. Stasiland, hailed as a ‘classic’, tells true stories of ordinary people who heroically resisted the communist dictatorship of East Germany, and of others who worked for the Stasi. In 2004 Stasiland won the UK’s premier award for non-fiction, the Samuel Johnson Prize, and was a finalist for many other awards. Anna’s novel All That I Am is an homage to four German anti-Hitler activists living bravely but precariously in exile in London in the 1930s. All That I Am won many literary awards including Australia’s most prestigious, the Miles Franklin Prize, and was a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. It spent over a year on the bestseller lists, was BBC Book of the Week and Book at Bedtime, and The Times Book of the Month. Both books are international best sellers, published in over twenty-four countries. Originally trained as an international human rights lawyer, Anna is a former DAAD Fellow in Berlin, Australia Council Fellow, and Rockefeller Foundation Fellow. She has lived in Paris, Berlin, and Brooklyn, and now lives in Sydney, Australia.
- name: Anna Funder
- imprint
- Knopf
- publishDate
- 2023-08-22T00:00:00Z
- isOwnedByCollections
- True
- title
- Wifedom
- fullDescription
- A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION FINALIST • This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century —and a probing consideration of what it means to be a wife and a writer in the modern world
"Simply, a masterpiece...Funder not only re-makes the art of biography, she resurrects a woman in full." —Geraldine Brooks, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, author of Horse
At the end of summer 2017, Anna Funder found herself at a moment of peak overload. Family obligations and household responsibilities were crushing her soul and taking her away from her writing deadlines. She needed help, and George Orwell came to her rescue.
"I’ve always loved Orwell," Funder writes, "his self-deprecating humour, his laser vision about how power works, and who it works on." So after rereading and savoring books Orwell had written, she devoured six major biographies tracing his life and work. But then she read about his forgotten wife, and it was a revelation.
Eileen O’Shaughnessy married Orwell in 1936. O’Shaughnessy was a writer herself, and her literary brilliance not only shaped Orwell’s work, but her practical common sense saved his life. But why and how, Funder wondered, was she written out of their story? Using newly discovered letters from Eileen to her best friend, Funder re-creates the Orwells’ marriage, through the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War in London. As she peeks behind the curtain of Orwell’s private life she is led to question what it takes to be a writer—and what it is to be a wife.
A breathtakingly intimate view of one of the most important literary marriages of the twentieth century, Wifedom speaks to our present moment as much as it illuminates the past. Genre-bending and utterly original, it is an ode to the unsung work of women everywhere. - popularity
- 1126
- links
- self:
- href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BvwAAAA25/products/36dd0d36-d119-4a46-bf91-3cc1d099bc5f/metadata
- type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
- shareInLibby:
- href: https://link.overdrive.com/share?q=tfCMAEqDkIE
- type: text/HTML
- self:
- id
- 36dd0d36-d119-4a46-bf91-3cc1d099bc5f
- starRating
- 4.1
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{36DD0D36-D119-4A46-BF91-3CC1D099BC5F}IMG100.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0111-1/{36DD0D36-D119-4A46-BF91-3CC1D099BC5F}IMG200.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0111-1/{36DD0D36-D119-4A46-BF91-3CC1D099BC5F}IMG150.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0111-1/{36DD0D36-D119-4A46-BF91-3CC1D099BC5F}IMG400.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- isPublicPerformanceAllowed
- False
- languages
- code: en
- name: English
- subjects
- value: Biography & Autobiography
- value: Sociology
- value: Women's Studies
- value: Nonfiction
- publishDateText
- 08/22/2023
- otherFormatIdentifiers
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780593320686
- mediaType
- eBook
- shortDescription
- A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION FINALIST • This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century —and a probing consideration of what it means to be a wife and a writer in the modern world
"Simply, a masterpiece...Funder not only re-makes the art of biography, she resurrects a woman in full." —Geraldine Brooks, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, author of Horse
At the end of summer 2017, Anna Funder found herself at a moment of peak overload. Family obligations and household responsibilities were crushing her soul and taking her away from her writing deadlines. She needed help, and George Orwell came to her rescue.
"I’ve always loved Orwell," Funder writes, "his self-deprecating humour, his laser vision about how power works, and who it works on." So after rereading and savoring books Orwell had written, she... - sortTitle
- Wifedom Mrs Orwells Invisible Life
- crossRefId
- 9236661
- classifications
- subtitle
- Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
- publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- bisacCodes
- code: BIO007000
- description: Biography & Autobiography / Literary
- code: BIO022000
- description: Biography & Autobiography / Women
- code: SOC028000
- description: Social Science / Women's Studies