Birth announcement: George Orwell is becoming a Big Brother

By Maya Handa

Feb. 4, 2013

January 30, 1908 – Richard and Ida Orwell are pleased to announce the birth of their second child, April Orwell. April, weighing about as much as a Communist pig, was brought home from the hospital yesterday. “Her big brother is watching her,” Ms. Orwell said of their first child, George.