Fay Weldon | |
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.jpg) Weldon at the Copenhagen Book Fair in 2008 | |
| Born | Franklin Birkinshaw 22 September 1931 Birmingham, England |
| Died | 4 January 2023 (aged 91) Northampton, England |
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| 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 Weldon CBE 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 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.