ABSTRACT
By the 1960s, memoirs like those by V. S. Pritchett and Richard Rees, the two chief architects of George Orwell's reputation as a saint, had given way to hosannas by literary journalists. St. George is the most frequent personification of The Saint. The literary canonization of Orwell as "saint" by Pritchett, Rees, John Atkins, T. R. Fyvel, and others in the early 1950s surely gave rise to the 'St. George' characterization, but the link is impossible to document. Yet Orwell is one socialist intellectual reputed for having gone far in living out his socialist ideals. The chapter presents "the New York Intellectuals' Orwell." Having only entered what Cardinal Newman heralded as its "Second Spring" with the restoration of the ecclesiastical hierarchy in 1850, British Catholicism remained defensive and inward-looking for more than a century afterwards. Hollis' Orwell remained a foot-dragging religious fellow-traveler.
