George Orwell was born in India, but raised in England and schooled at Eton College as a young man. His writing career began in earnest in the 1920’s and 1930’s.
Orwell said, like many of his peers, he only found comfort in thinking about socialism. He said it made him feel better about life.
However, privately, he stuck avowedly to conservative principles by himself, even if he disagreed with its ideas in practice.