Germaine Greer burgled

Germaine Greer offered money for her jewellery's return

Feminist author Germaine Greer has had a pair of £10,000 diamond earrings stolen from her home.

The burglary follows an incident last month when a teenager imprisoned the academic and writer in her Georgian farmhouse in Essex.

She has offered to pay the burglar for the return of the earrings.

Ms Greer, 61, believes she was working in her garden when the theft happened.

The theft took place at the writer's home

She discovered her loss when she noticed a 17th-century plate on a table in her dining room had been moved

Cameras had been taken from her sideboard.

"I knew what had to be coming next," she said.

"In my dressing room the tiny drawers where I keep my trinkets had been emptied onto the floor. My heart sank."

"Super-dumb"

The burglar had used a crowbar to force a window in the dining room half-open, she said.

The burglar took a video of her sister's holiday and two fake Rolex watches.

She described the theft of the watches as "super-dumb".

Ms Greer has now offered the "poor skinny man", as she described the thief, £1,000 for the earrings, which were bought in her native Australia.

Last month Bath University student Karen Burke was put on probation for two years after she admitted harassing Ms Greer.