Sonia Orwell of George Orwell during the last decade of the writer's life, and other friends of Orwell, have said that Sonia was the model for Julia, the heroine of "Nineteen Eighty-Four", the "girl from the fiction department" who brings love and warmth to the middle-aged hero, Winston Smith. As Orwell wrote in "Nineteen Eighty-Four", "the girl from the fiction department... was looking at him... She was very young, he thought, she still expected something from life... She would not accept it as a law of nature that the individual is always defeated... All you needed was luck and cunning and boldness.
George Orwell bibliography in 2006, with a paperback published on 25 September 2007. In 2011, Davison's selection of letters and journal entries were published as "George Orwell: A Life in Letters" and "Diaries" by Harvill Secker. A selection by Davison from Orwell's journalism and other writings were published by Harvill Secker in 2014 under the title "Seeing Things as They Are". After his first publication—the poem "Awake! Young Men of England", published in the "Henley and South Oxfordshire Standard" in 1914—Orwell continued to write for his school publications "The Election Times" and "College Days"/"The Colleger". He also experimented with writing for several years