English author, essayist and playwright (1931–2023)
Fay Weldon
CBE, FRSL
Weldon at the Copenhagen Book Fair in 2008
Born
Franklin Birkinshaw (1931-09-22)22 September 1931 Birmingham, England
Died
4 January 2023(2023-01-04) (aged 91) Northampton, England
Occupation
Author
essayist
playwright
Period
1963–2018
Notable works
Puffball (1980) The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1983) The Cloning of Joanna May (1989) Wicked Women (1995) The Bulgari Connection (2000)
Spouse
Ronald Bateman
(m. 1957; div. 1959)
Ron Weldon
(m. 1963; died 1994)
Nick Fox
(m. 1994; sep. 2020)
Children
4
Parents
Margaret Jepson (mother)
Relatives
Selwyn Jepson (uncle) Edgar Jepson (grandfather) Alan Birkinshaw (half-brother)
Fay WeldonCBE FRSL (born Franklin Birkinshaw; 22 September 1931 – 4 January 2023) was an English author, essayist and playwright.
Over the course of her 55-year writing career, she published 31 novels, including Puffball (1980), The Cloning of Joanna May (1989), Wicked Women (1995) and The Bulgari Connection (2000), but was most well-known as the writer of The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1983) which was televised by the BBC in 1986.
Married three times and with four children, Weldon was a self-declared feminist. Her work features what she described as "overweight, plain women". She said there were many reasons why she became a feminist, including the "appalling" lack of equal opportunities and the myth that women were supported by male relatives.
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by FayWeldon that became notorious for its commercial tie-in: in exchange for an undisclosed fee from the Italian jewellery company Bulgari, Weldon was...
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sculpture at Columbia University, New York City Life Force, a 1992 novel by FayWeldon Lifeforce Records, a 1995 record label Life Force (TV series), a 2000...
Scottish novelist, whose work has been seen as redefining femininity. FayWeldon praised Brunton's writings as "rich in invention, ripe with incident,...
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starring Elizabeth Garvie and David Rintoul, adapted from the novel by FayWeldon. Lyme Park, near Stockport, was the setting for Pemberley for the 1995...
Margaret Birkinshaw and by her pen name Pearl Bellairs. Her daughter, FayWeldon, and father, Edgar Jepson, were both novelists. Margaret Jepson was born...
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clarion call to freedom. Every woman should read it." British novelist FayWeldon called the book "essential reading for the New Woman". Betty Friedan wrote...
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