Editing George Orwell (section)

===Teaching career===
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In April 1932 Blair became a teacher at The Hawthorns High School, a school for boys, in [[Hayes, Hillingdon|Hayes]], west London. This was a small private school, and had only 14 or 16 boys aged between ten and sixteen, and one other master.<ref>Crick (1982), p. 221</ref> While at the school he became friendly with the curate of the local parish church and became involved with activities there. Mabel Fierz had pursued matters with Moore, and at the end of June 1932, Moore told Blair that [[Victor Gollancz]] was prepared to publish ''A Scullion's Diary'' for a £40 advance, through his recently founded publishing house, [[Victor Gollancz Ltd]], which was an outlet for radical and socialist works.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Wagner|first=David Paul|date=2019|title=Left Book Club|url=https://www.publishinghistory.com/left-book-club-victor-gollancz.html|website=Publishing History}}</ref>

At the end of the summer term in 1932, Blair returned to Southwold, where his parents had used a legacy to buy their own home. Blair and his sister Avril spent the holidays making the house habitable while he also worked on ''Burmese Days''.<ref>Avril Dunn ''My Brother George Orwell'' Twentieth Century 1961</ref> He was also spending time with Eleanor Jacques, but her attachment to Dennis Collings remained an obstacle to his hopes of a more serious relationship.

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"Clink", an essay describing his failed attempt to get sent to prison, appeared in the August 1932 number of ''Adelphi''. He returned to teaching at Hayes and prepared for the publication of his book, now known as ''Down and Out in Paris and London''. He wished to publish under a different name to avoid any embarrassment to his family over his time as a "tramp".<ref name="nybooks">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/may/26/intimate-orwell/?pagination=false |title=The Intimate Orwell |last=Leys |first=Simon |date=6 May 2011 |access-date=6 May 2011 |magazine=[[The New York Review of Books]]}}</ref> In a letter to Moore (dated 15 November 1932), he left the choice of pseudonym to Moore and to Gollancz. Four days later, he wrote to Moore, suggesting the pseudonyms P. S. Burton (a name he used when tramping), Kenneth Miles, George Orwell, and H. Lewis Allways.<ref>Orwell, Sonia and Angus, Ian (eds.)''Orwell: An Age Like This'', letters 31 and 33 (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World)</ref> He finally adopted the [[pen name]] George Orwell because "It is a good round English name."<ref>{{cite news|title=George Orwell: from Animal Farm to Zog, an A–Z of Orwell|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/5386673/George-Orwell-from-Animal-Farm-to-Zog-an-A-Z-of-Orwell.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/5386673/George-Orwell-from-Animal-Farm-to-Zog-an-A-Z-of-Orwell.html |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|agency=The Telegraph|date=20 March 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The name George was inspired by the [[Saint George|patron saint of England]], and Orwell after the [[River Orwell]] in Suffolk which was one of Orwell's favourite locations.<ref name="Down"/>

''Down and Out in Paris and London'' was published by Victor Gollancz in London on 9 January 1933 and received favourable reviews, with [[Cecil Day-Lewis]] complimenting Orwell's "clarity and good sense", and ''[[The Times Literary Supplement]]'' comparing Orwell's eccentric characters to the [[Charles Dickens#Characters|characters of Dickens]].<ref name="Down">{{cite book |last1=Brunsdale |first1=Mitzi |title=Student Companion to George Orwell |date=2000 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |pages=48–49, 64}}</ref> ''Down and Out'' was modestly successful and was next published by [[Harper (publisher)|Harper & Brothers]] in New York.<ref name="Down"/>

In mid-1933 Blair left Hawthorns to become a teacher at [[Frays River|Frays College]], in [[Uxbridge]], west London. This was a much larger establishment with 200 pupils and a full complement of staff. He acquired a motorcycle and took trips through the surrounding countryside. On one of these expeditions he became soaked and caught a chill that developed into pneumonia. He was taken to a [[cottage hospital]] in Uxbridge, where for a time his life was believed to be in danger. When he was discharged in January 1934, he returned to Southwold to convalesce and, supported by his parents, never returned to teaching.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Applegate |first1=Edd |title=Advocacy Journalists: A Biographical Dictionary of Writers and Editors |date=2009 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |page=151}}</ref>

He was disappointed when Gollancz turned down ''Burmese Days'', mainly on the grounds of potential suits for libel, but Harper were prepared to publish it in the United States. Meanwhile, Blair started work on the novel ''[[A Clergyman's Daughter]]'', drawing upon his life as a teacher and on life in Southwold. Eventually in October, after sending ''A Clergyman's Daughter'' to Moore, he left for London to take a job that had been found for him by his aunt Nellie Limouzin.<ref name="Down"/>