Eileen

Sylvia Topp is the author of numerous essays, including 'Hidden Husbands' and 'You Can't Get to Barnhill from Here'. She has worked in publishing since college, starting as a copy editor on medical journals, then moving to freelance editing at major literary publishing houses. She was the long-time wife and partner of Tuli Kupferberg, a Beat poet who later was a co-founder, in 1964, of the Fugs, a legendary rock and roll band. Together Sylvia and Tuli wrote, edited, and designed over thirty books and magazines, including As They Were, 1001 Ways to Live Without Working, and *Yeah! *magazine. Sylvia joined the staff at *The Soho Weekly News *and later The Village Voice, before finishing her publishing career at Vanity Fair. *Eileen *is her first book. She lives in Kingston, Ontario.

Foreword by Peter Davison ix 
Introduction by Sylvia Topp xiii
1 A Complicated Ancestry 1
2 Head Girl at High School 21
3 Honours at Oxford 41
4 Between Oxford and Orwell 71
5 A Whirlwind Courtship 97
6 Orwell in Love 119
7 Six Happy Months of Marriage 133
8 Escape from Catalonia 163
9 From Overwork to Near Tragedy 189
10 Abandoned Again 211
11 Coming Up for Air in Morocco 231
12 War Ends the Wallington Experiment 259
13 The Worst Years of Her Life 289
14 Coming into Her Own at Last 315
15 But Smooth Sailing Was Never an Option 341
16 Nearly a Happy Ending 373
Epilogue: Orwell Without Eileen 407
Appendix: Two Complete Letters by Eileen 413 
Notes 423 
A Note of Appreciation 455 
Index 461 
Supporters 471