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 A. Hero George A. Hero George A. Hero (28 July 1854 – 1932) was a New Orleans entrepreneur who organized the drainage of vast tracts of swampland on the West Bank of the Mississippi River at New Orleans. He was known locally as the "Drainage King". and was founder of the Hero Land Company. Later Hero was involved in a project to build a bridge from New Orleans to the West Bank, but this was never completed. Hero was born in New Orleans. As a young man, Hero began working at W.F. Halsey Company, agents for a New York bank. When he