About The Orwell Foundation
"Orwell Daily is a lovely use of Substack, finding the best pieces from his archive and making them available online” - The Bluestocking
Orwell Daily is the new way to read one of the world’s greatest writers. We dig out highlights and hidden gems from George Orwell's journalism, letters and diaries and deliver them to your inbox “on the day” they were first published.
Illustration courtesy of André Carrilho.
Orwell Daily is a project from The Orwell Foundation, a registered charity working to promote and protect George Orwell’s legacy for everyone, and edited by Jeremy Wikeley.
Why Orwell’s Journalism?
Although he is best remembered now as the author of two of the 20th century’s most influential novels, George Orwell (1903-1950) was also a prolific, insightful, entertaining and provocative journalist, essayist and critic.