 The list became public in 2003.Having worked for Cyril Connolly's "Horizon" magazine, and briefly as an editorial assistant for Humphrey Slater's "Polemic", Kirwan was Arthur Koestler's sister-in-law and one of the four women to whom Orwell proposed after the death of his wife Eileen O'Shaughnessy in 1945.Although Koestler had supported such a match, Kirwan turned him down.