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This author’s wife, whose poem about the “End of the Century” may have inspired one of this author’s novels, is the subject of Wifedom by Anna Funder. A character created by this author, who may have been inspired by Sonia Brownell, is given the last name Worthing in a feminist retelling by Sandra Newman. In a novel by this author, Rosemary Waterlow confesses she is pregnant to a man who works at the New Albion advertising agency while writing the long (10[1])poem London Pleasures. This author of Keep the Aspidistra (10[1])Flying wrote a novel whose protagonist receives a note that says “I love you” from a woman he eventually betrays while being tortured by rats in Room 101. (10[2]-5[1])For 10 points, name this author (10[2])who wrote about Julia and (10[1])Winston Smith in the novel 1984. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: George Orwell [or Eric Arthur Blair] (The first line refers to Eileen Blair, who wrote the poem “End of the Century, 1984.”)
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