Ravelston

Comstock speculates that Ravelston receives nearly two thousand pounds a year after tax—a very comfortable sum in those days—and Rees, in a volume of autobiography published in 1963 wrote: "..

Gordon continues drinking, drags Ravelston with him to visit a pair of prostitutes, and ends up broke and in a police cell the next morning.

He treats Rosemary and Ravelston to dinner, which begins well, but the evening deteriorates as it proceeds.

Ravelston pays Gordon's fine after a brief appearance before the magistrate, but a reporter hears about the case, and writes about it in the local paper.

Richard Rees George Orwell: Fugitive from the Camp of Victory Secker & Warburg 1961 The character of Ravelston the wealthy publisher in Keep the Aspidistra Flying has much in common with Rees.