Editing George Orwell (section)

===Rest and recuperation===
[[File:24 Crooms Hill, Greenwich, London-11July2010.jpg|thumb|Laurence O'Shaughnessy's former home, the large house on the corner, 24 Crooms Hill, [[Greenwich]], London<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theorwellprize.co.uk/george-orwell/about-orwell/gordon-bowker-orwells-london|title=Gordon Bowker: Orwell's London|date=23 September 2010|publisher=theorwellprise.co.uk|access-date=2 February 2011}}</ref>]]

Orwell returned to England in June 1937, and stayed at the O'Shaughnessy home at Greenwich. He found his views on the Spanish Civil War out of favour, but praised the book ''Red Spanish Notebook: the first six months of revolution and the civil war'' by Juan Ramón Breá and [[Mary Stanley Low]] in a review for ''[[Time and Tide (magazine)|Time and Tide]]'' magazine.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yH_gSaP_GqsC&dq=mary+low+spain&pg=PT388 |title=Orwell in Spain |date=3 May 2001 |publisher=Penguin Books Limited |isbn=978-0-14-191390-2 |pages=401 |language=en}}</ref> [[Kingsley Martin]] rejected two of Orwell's works and Gollancz was equally cautious. At the same time, the communist ''[[Morning Star (British newspaper)|Daily Worker]]'' was running an attack on ''The Road to Wigan Pier'', taking out of context Orwell writing that "the working classes smell"; a letter to Gollancz from Orwell threatening libel action brought a stop to this. Orwell was also able to find a more sympathetic publisher for his views in [[Fredric Warburg]] of Secker & Warburg. Orwell returned to Wallington, which he found in disarray after his absence. He acquired goats, a cockerel (rooster) he called [[Henry Ford]] and a poodle puppy he called [[Karl Marx|Marx]];<ref name=taylor/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.paralumun.com/bioorwell.htm |title=George Orwell Biography |publisher=Paralumun.com |access-date=21 October 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110427222231/http://www.paralumun.com/bioorwell.htm |archive-date=27 April 2011 |url-status=usurped }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/16-8-40/ |title=The Orwell Prize |publisher=Orwelldiaries.wordpress.com |date=16 August 2010 |access-date=21 October 2010}}</ref> and settled down to animal husbandry and writing ''Homage to Catalonia''.

There were thoughts of going to India to work on ''[[The Pioneer (newspaper)|The Pioneer]]'', a newspaper in [[Lucknow]], but by March 1938 Orwell's health had deteriorated. He was admitted to [[Preston Hall, Aylesford|Preston Hall Sanatorium]] at [[Aylesford]], Kent, a [[British Legion]] hospital for ex-servicemen to which his brother-in-law Laurence O'Shaughnessy was attached. He was thought initially to be suffering from [[tuberculosis]] and stayed in the sanatorium until September. ''Homage to Catalonia'' was published in London by [[Harvill Secker|Secker & Warburg]] and was a commercial flop; it re-emerged in the 1950s, following on the success of Orwell's later books.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Buchanan|first=Tom|date=1 September 2002|title=Three Lives of Homage to Catalonia|url=https://doi.org/10.1093/library/3.3.302|journal=The Library|volume=3|issue=3|pages=302–314|doi=10.1093/library/3.3.302|issn=0024-2160|access-date=17 October 2021}}</ref>

The novelist [[Leo Myers|L. H. Myers]] secretly funded a trip to [[French Morocco]] for half a year for Orwell to avoid the English winter and recover his health. The Orwells set out in September 1938 via [[Gibraltar]] and [[Tangier]] to avoid [[Spanish Morocco]] and arrived at [[Marrakech]]. They rented a villa on the road to [[Casablanca]] and during that time Orwell wrote ''[[Coming Up for Air]]''. They arrived back in England on 30 March 1939 and ''Coming Up for Air'' was published in June. Orwell spent time in Wallington and Southwold working on ann essay about [[Charles Dickens]]. In June 1939, Orwell's father died.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Connelly |first1=Mark |title=George Orwell: A Literary Companion |date=2018 |publisher=McFarland |page=17}}</ref>