72 “moving into an age” – Ibid., p. 110.
73 “the literary history” – Ibid., p. 105.
74 “always on the side of the underdog” – Orwell, “Charles Dickens”, CW XII, 597, p. 55.
75 “It is the face of a man” – Ibid., p. 56.
76 “I should doubt whether” – Ibid., p. 47.
77 “To be a lover of Dickens” – The Dickensian, vol. 36, no. 256, September 1, 1940, reprinted in CW XII, 627, p. 167.
78 For the next four years– see Wadhams, p. 130.
79 “Everything is disintegrating” – Orwell, War-time Diary, June 10, 1940, CW XII, 637, p. 182.
80 “We shall at any rate” – Orwell letter to James Laughlin, July 16, 1940, CW XII, 659, p. 219.
81 “ARM THE PEOPLE” – Orwell letter to the editor, Time and Tide, June 22, 1940, CW XII, 642, p. 193.
82 “an Ironside” – Warburg, p. 36.
83 “A Counter-Revolutionary Gangster Passes” – Daily Worker, August 23, 1940.
84 “How will the Russian state” – Orwell, War-time Diary, August 23, 1940, CW XII, 677, p. 241.
85 “cultural blue-prints” – Tribune, August 16, 1940, CW XII, 655, p. 213.
86 “I don’t think anyone need fear” – Ibid., p. 214.
87 “Reality has outdone fiction” – H. G. Wells, Experiment in Autobiography (Gollancz, 1934), p. 501.
88 “I could imagine an English Fascism” and “The novel does not set out” – Quoted in Andy Croft, Red Letter Days: British Fiction in the 1930s (Lawrence & Wishart, 1990), p. 230.
89 “a horrible brainless empire” – Orwell, Review of Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler, New English Weekly, March 21, 1940, CW XII, 602, p. 117.
90 “year of the Lord Hitler 720” – Murray Constantine, Swastika Night (Gollancz, 2016), p. 11.
91 “We can create nothing” – Ibid., p. 121.