# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eileen-o-shaughnessy
# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:48:59.284Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eileen-o-shaughnessy"
name: "Eileen O'Shaughnessy"
slug: "eileen-o-shaughnessy"
description: "Eileen Maud Blair was a British poet and psychologist. She was the first wife of Eric Arthur Blair, commonly known as the English author George Orwell. During the Spanish Civil War in 1937, she volunteered as an English-French typist for the Independent Labour Party leader John McNair while Orwell was fighting with the POUM. When the POUM was declared illegal, she helped her husband escape from Spain."
tagline: "British psychologist and writer (1905–1945)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Eileen_o'Shaughnessy.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1905-09-25"
deathDate: "1945-03-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.07
  momentum:             0.08044901777362021
  historical:           11.12730133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Блэр, Эйлин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "إيلين بلير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Eileen O'Shaughnessy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen_O'Shaughnessy"
    title: "Eileen O'Shaughnessy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen_Blair"
    title: "Eileen Blair"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen_Blair"
    title: "Eileen Blair"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen_O'Shaughnessy"
    title: "Eileen O'Shaughnessy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen_O'Shaughnessy"
    title: "Eileen O'Shaughnessy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen_O'Shaughnessy"
    title: "Eileen O'Shaughnessy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%B1"
    title: "ایلین بلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen_O'Shaughnessy"
    title: "Eileen O'Shaughnessy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen_Blair"
    title: "Eileen Blair"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen_O'Shaughnessy"
    title: "Eileen O'Shaughnessy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1649757"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump