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Because literature was not an accepted subject for boys at the time, Orwell studied the master writers and began to develop his own writing style. Orwell's first published work, the poem "Awake Young Men of England," was printed in the Henley and South Oxfordshire Standard when he was eleven years old. However, the young Orwell had a gift for writing, which he recognized at the age of just five or six.

The Orwell family was not wealthy, and, in reading Orwell's personal essays about his childhood, readers can easily see that his formative years were less than satisfying. Young Orwell was brought to England by his mother and educated in Henley and Sussex at schools. George Orwell is the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, born in 1903 in Motihari, Bengal, India, during the time of the British colonial rule.