![]() ![]() ![]() Ravelston is acutely self conscious of his upper-class status and defensive about his unearned income. The character of Ravelston the wealthy publisher in Keep the Aspidistra Flying has much in common with Rees. Orwell's early publications appeared in The Adelphi, a left-wing literary journal edited by Sir Richard Rees, a wealthy and idealistic baronet who made Orwell one of his protégés. Stone would prefer to prostitute his wife rather than prostitute his artistic integrity by writing advertising copy. ![]() At this time he wrote a fragment of a play in which the protagonist Stone needs money for his child's life-saving operation. At the beginning of 1928 he lived in lodgings in Portobello Road from where he started his tramping expeditions, sleeping rough and roaming in the poorer parts of London. Orwell wrote the book in 19 when he was living at various locations near Hampstead in London, and drew on his experiences in these and the preceding few years. That was what it meant to worship the money-god! To settle down, to Make Good, to sell your soul for a villa and an aspidistra! To turn into the typical bowler-hatted sneak - Strube's 'little man' What a fate!" (Ch III) Two aspidistra plants - "The types he saw all round him, especially the older men, made him squirm. ![]()
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