Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder

7 reviews

khakipantsofsex's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Misogyny, Rape, Death, Terminal illness, Sexual assault, Infidelity, Racism, and Grief

leanneymu's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

A fascinating biography of Eileen Blair, George Orwell's first wife, who was written out of his story by subsequent biographers of Orwell, despite the fact that she did LOADS of the work to ensure that Orwell was able to write his masterpieces. I love books that restablished maligned women, and this book is a magic trick, essentially re-instating the reputation of a women who was vanished out of history by the systematic misogeny of 1930s-40s England. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism, Misogyny, War, Blood, Rape, and Sexual harassment

kirstym25's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Death, and Infidelity

Moderate: Rape, Chronic illness, and Infertility

esmem's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness and Death

Moderate: Sexual assault and Rape

larafrances's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Terminal illness, Infidelity, Medical content, Infertility, Chronic illness, Grief, Racism, and Sexual assault

samfictiondistilling's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

Beautifully written and so informative. I will be forever grateful to Anna Funder for the work that went into this book and for the story of the other side of Orwell.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Medical content, Cancer, Infidelity, Rape, Sexism, Blood, Chronic illness, Medical trauma, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, and War

nanc_282's review against another edition

informative sad medium-paced

4.0

It’s difficult to read this book and not think about all the literary men and the unacknowledged work of the women in their lives, Dorothy Wordsworth, Mary Shelley,
Who listen, edited, organised a household to create space for men to write. For me, the real success of this book, is to look at the life of Eileen Blair and consider how her ‘Wifedom’ under pinned George Orwell’s literary career. 
It’s impossible not to have to reconsider Orwell’s legacy in view of what this book reveals.
Anna Funder’s autoethnographic sections are excellent.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Medical content, Misogyny, and Infidelity

Moderate: Homophobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Blood, Racial slurs, Terminal illness, and Chronic illness