At only one year of age, A very young Orwell (still Eric Blaire) moves with only his mother, Ida Limouzin, and his six-year-old sister Marjorie Blaire. His father and mother stay together, but his father lives in India, where he works in civil service, overseeing the export of Opium to Asia. He only gets to see his father very rarely.

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Dec 1904

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