She was intrigued by Orwell’s description of the “two great facts about women” – their “incorrigible dirtiness and untidiness” and “terrible, devouring sexuality”. Funder concluded Orwell was “paranoid”, felt he’d been “tricked by a politico-sexual conspiracy of filthy women”, and, furthermore, “saw women/wives in terms of what they do for him, or demand of him”. Australian author Anna Funder. Tim Bauer She was moving towards these conclusions at the same time as The New York Times launched an investigation into reports that prominent Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was a serial sexual abuser of women, and worse. The Times’ reporting led...