query: When did George Orwell write Homage to Catalonia?
passage: Homage to Catalonia
The first edition was published in the United Kingdom in 1938. The book was not published in the United States until February 1952, when it appeared with an influential preface by Lionel Trilling. The only translation published in Orwell's lifetime was into Italian, in December 1948.[1] A French translation by Yvonne Davet—with whom Orwell corresponded, commenting on her translation and providing explanatory notes—in 1938–39, was not published until five years after Orwell's death.[2] .
passage: Philip Mairet
He was an early supporter of George Orwell, giving him literary work for the "New English Weekly", and writing in very positive and comprehending terms about "Homage to Catalonia" and Orwell's approach. He was a friend and long-time correspondent of T. S. Eliot, who dedicated his "Notes towards the Definition of Culture" to Mairet.
Mairet was one of the best-connected of all the British Christian intellectuals of that time.