Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder

4 reviews

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

rhi_'s review against another edition

dark reflective sad slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Death, Terminal illness, and Medical content

Moderate: War, Blood, Gaslighting, Chronic illness, Sexual assault, and Abandonment

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