5/22/2023 0 Comments Orwell novel burmese![]() Surpassing New York as the busiest immigrant port in the world Rangoon had a growing economy resourcing labor and professional skills from the subcontinent. Rangoon in the 1920s enjoyed a higher standard of living than neighboring India. Orwell boarded the SS Herefordshire on October 1922, cruised down the Suez Canal, across the Red Sea, and past Ceylon on a month-long 8,000 mile passage to Burma. Orwell’s voyage to Burma was more home-coming than exile – he was traveling back to his roots. Teak had made the town and the family reasonably wealthy in the 19th century and a sizable population of Europeans still lived there. His maternal grandmother and mother had lived in-country at Moulmein (now Mawlamyine). Orwell stated Burma, above the United Provinces of British India, as his first choice posting. ![]() ![]() The entrance exam required Orwell to write a letter describing a trip to the theater and an essay on the greatest English prime minister – easy stuff for an ex-Etonian and future scribe. ![]()
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