George and Maynard Part 2: Two Middle Aged Rebels, War and Women

JM Keynes and George Orwell, twentieth century heroes

In my previous post, inspired by Rebecca Solnit’s Orwell’s Roses, I wrote about how George Orwell and John Maynard Keynes, two English boys from unremarkable middle class families, embarked upon the unlikely journey that was to take them from scholarship students to intellectual heretics to twentieth century heroes. They left a legacy that endures today…