Ian Angus (librarian)

Ian Angus is a British librarian and a scholar on George Orwell.[1]

Life

Formerly the Librarian at King's College London,[2] while Deputy Librarian at University College, London, in 1968 Angus edited, with Sonia Orwell, Orwell's Collected Journalism, Essays and Letters, published by Secker & Warburg.[3][4] While at University College, he helped set up the Orwell Archive.[5][6]

In 1976 he became the second husband of the ceramics artist Ann Stokes. Ann had a second studio in Italy where they spent time with Ian tending to their olive trees. The marriage was said to be happy.[7]

Angus later assisted Peter Davison and Sheila Davison in editing the 20-volume work, The Complete Works of George Orwell (Secker and Warburg).[8]

References
  1. Spurling, Hilary (2003) "He looked for trouble" The Telegraph. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
  2. "George Orwell's Down and Out in Proof" in The Library (1977) s5-XXXII (4): 372-376. The Library. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
  3. Taylor, D J (2010) Orwell: The Life. Random House. At Google Books. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
  4. "Orwell's every word" Times Higher Education. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
  5. Leab, Daniel J. "George Orwell An Exhibition from the Collection of Daniel J. Leab. Brown University, Fall 1997. Collector's Note" Brown University. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
  6. "D. J. Taylor: An Oxfordshire Tomb" The Orwell Prize. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
  7. Harrod, Tanya (2014-05-14). "Ann Stokes obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-08-14.
  8. Garton Ash, Timothy (1998) "Orwell in 1998" The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
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