With the re-emergence of the feminist critique of Orwell in Wifedom, by Anna Funder – and in the forthcoming Julia, by Sandra Newman, and The Sisterhood by Katherine Bradley already published – it may be interesting to revisit Aelfrida Tillyard’s long-forgotten dystopian novel, Concrete (1930). It includes a head of a government ministry called ‘Big … Continue reading A Feminist Anticipation of Nineteen Eighty-Four?