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George Orwell, Cyril Connolly, Stephen Spender, and Horizon Magazine blue plaque
George Orwell · Novelist
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“George Orwell 1903-1950 Sir Stephen Spender 1909-1995 wrote for Cyril Connolly's Horizon Magazine based here 1940-1948”
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1903-50
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Lansdowne Terrace
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Erected 2015
Marchmont Association, University of London
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George Orwell
novelist, political essayist, essayist, writer, and husband of Eileen Blair · (1903-1950)
Cyril Connolly
journalist, critic, author, writer, Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, and editor · (1903-1974)
Stephen Spender
(1909-1995)
Horizon Magazine
magazine
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