Biography
Fay Weldon (born Franklin Birkinshaw; 22 September 1931 β 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.
Filmography
all 28
Writer 19
TV Shows 14
Movies 14
self 6
The House the '50s Built (2012)
Ever to Excel (2012)
Melvyn Bragg on Class and Culture (2012)
Puffball (2007)
The Alan Titchmarsh Show (2007)
The Garden Party (1998)
Big Women (1998)
Philip K Dick: A Day in the Afterlife (1994)
The President's Child (1992)
The Cloning of Joanna May (1992)
Pebble Mill (1991)
She-Devil (1989)
Heart of the Country (1987)
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1986)
For Love Alone (1986)
Ladies in Charge (1986)
Time for Murder (1985)
Life for Christine (1980)
Pride and Prejudice (1980)
Killer's Moon (1978)
Abschiedsparty (1975)
Die Geschichte einer dicken Frau (1973)
A Splinter of Ice (1972)
Upstairs, Downstairs (1971)
Office Party (1971)
Kate (1970)
Poor Cherry (1967)
Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965)
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Known ForWriting
GenderFemale
Birthday1931-09-22 (92 years old)
Birth NameFranklin Birkinshaw
Birth PlaceBirmingham, United Kingdom
ReligionAnglicanism
Height
MotherMargaret Jepson
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
ResidencesNorthampton, United Kingdom
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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