Fay Weldon

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Writer Fay Weldon dies aged 91 (The Guardian)

Author of novels including The Life and Loves of a She-Devil wrote more than 30 books as well as TV drama.

[suggesting once that only 60% of what she told journalists was true](https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2009/aug/22/fay-weldon-interview-saturday). [Auto da Fay](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/may/18/biography.fayweldon), Weldon described how Bateman wasn’t interested in sex and encouraged her to work as a hostess in a Soho nightclub. With four more novels appearing over the following decade, as well as a series of plays for stage and screen, there was little chance that a voice as caustic and energetic as Weldon’s would be forgotten. Her sixth novel, Praxis, tells the story of a woman who plays a succession of roles – drudge, prostitute, wife, mother, copywriter and feminist leader – and finds herself committing adultery, incest and infanticide. Weldon’s best-known novel, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, was published five years later, in 1983. Weldon charted lives shaped by class and the sexual revolution in more than 30 novels including The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, Splitting and the Booker prize-shortlisted Praxis.

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Fay Weldon, British Novelist Who Challenged Feminist Orthodoxy ... (The New York Times)

By turns elusive and confessional in public, she used dark satire to explore the divides between men and women.

She went on to find success as a television writer with the top-rated series “Upstairs, Downstairs,” about relationships between the ruling classes and their underlings — a recurring feature of British popular culture. But the couple divorced several years later, and she returned to England with her daughters, working as a housekeeper and a subway janitor before writing novels. [recalled](https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/aug/31/bookerprize2003.awardsandprizes) in an interview with The Guardian in 2003 that he was about to announce Mr. But while she acquired a reputation as a “feminist of the old school,” as Emma Brockes “She looks in the mirror and sees that her hair is thin and her complexion dull,” Ms. She suggested in an interview with The Guardian in 2009 that the “Which is the age at which I stopped ‘Auto da Fay’: the age I stopped living and started writing instead, as a serious person.” (The final chapter of her autobiography suggests that she reached that watershed at 32, in 1963.) Her website précis did scant justice to a canon of writing perhaps best known for “The Life and Loves of a She-Devil” (1983), a tangled parable of a woman wronged and the vengeance she exacts. “When she goes down to the village she is just another scurrying, aging woman, holding on to what is left of her life. Weldon’s early writing reflected an era that saw the rise of feminism in Britain, which provided the backdrop to much of her fiction. “She was a writer to the very end.” While she was too weak to hold a pen, she was still writing in her head, Mr.

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Fay Weldon: The Life and Loves of a She-Devil author dies aged 91 (BBC News)

Weldon was born in the UK but was brought up in New Zealand. She published her first novel in 1967 and went on to be shortlisted for the Booker and Whitbread ...

As well as being shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1979, she was a judge in 1983 and delivered one of the most memorable speeches in Booker history. Weldon also won the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award the same year for Wicked Women, a short story collection. [The Times critic Clare Clark recently praised it](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/praxis-by-fay-weldon-review-ml30gvp2k) as her best work, saying the author set herself the task of "disabusing women of just about every comforting myth they might cling to, firing off savage truths as though it is a novelist's duty to break three taboos before breakfast". We are saddened to hear that the brilliant Fay Weldon has died. She said she deliberately wrote about women who were often overlooked or not featured in the media. I didn't do that again with any other book, and I've since been considered rather frivolous in some circles." In 2017, she wrote Death of a She-Devil, a sequel to The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, in which Ruth is now 84 and has made a world with "women triumphant, men submissive". May she rest in peace." [Weldon revealed on her website](https://fayweldon.co.uk/) that she had suffered a stroke and broken a bone in her back, meaning she had been "hospitalised for much of the last year". [Joanne Harris said](https://twitter.com/Joannechocolat/status/1610666214828769281) she was "a remarkable woman", while TV presenter [Peter Purves said](https://twitter.com/purves_peter/status/1610665341708820480) she was a "fantastic writer whose work lit up the 70's and 80's". [pic.twitter.com/1nsp4qHlHv] [January 4, 2023] [View original tweet on Twitter](https://twitter.com/GeorginaCapel/status/1610662929673908227) [Author Jenny Colgan led the tributes,](https://twitter.com/jennycolgan/status/1610602505494302720) describing Weldon as "formidable, fierce and wonderful". A family statement released by her agent said: "It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Fay Weldon (CBE), author, essayist and playwright.

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Fay Weldon, author of 'Life and Loves of a She-Devil,' dies (Los Angeles Times)

Fay Weldon, a prolific novelist and one of the writers on the popular TV drama 'Upstairs, Downstairs,' has died at 91.

“As well as being shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1979, she was a judge in 1983 and delivered one of the most memorable speeches in Booker history. She published her first novel, “The Fat Woman’s Joke,” in 1967. “The sad truth is, my theory goes, that no-one is much interested in what happens to women after they turn 35. Born in England in September 1931, Weldon was brought up in New Zealand and returned to the U.K. Weldon was a playwright, screenwriter and prolific novelist, producing 30 novels as well as short stories and plays written for television, radio and the stage. Women who don’t have a terrible time are young, attractive, intelligent and don’t have children.”

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Fay Weldon: The Life And Loves Of A She-Devil author dies aged 91 (Sky News)

The writer previously told fans that she had been in hospital after suffering from a stroke and broken bone in her back.

Weldon was one of the writers on the hit drama series Upstairs, Downstairs which ran from 1971 to 1975. She went on to write children's books, non-fiction books and newspaper articles. I am mostly recovered."

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Author Fay Weldon dies aged 91 (The Irish Times)

Best known for fiction including The Life And Loves Of A She-Devil and screenwriting work.

She was made a CBE for her services to literature in the New Year Honours list in 2001. Her 1978 novel Praxis was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction and she later chaired the judges’ panel for the prestigious award in 1983. The writer previously told her readers in a statement posted on her website that she had been admitted to hospital with a broken bone in her back and then with a stroke.

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The Life And Loves Of A She-Devil author Fay Weldon dies, aged 91 ... (Anglo Celt)

The novelist, playwright and screenwriter's body of work includes more than 30 novels.

May she rest in peace.” She was amazing. The writer previously told her readers in a statement posted on her website that she had been admitted to hospital with a broken bone in her back and then with a stroke.

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Kate Mosse: Fay Weldon was one of the great writers of the late 20th ... (BreakingNews.ie)

The Labyrinth author added Weldon had a 'radical message for women' to 'have fun'.

“(Weldon) deserves to be remembered as a woman who changed writing for women and gave many of us the courage to be the writers we wanted to be.” The 61-year-old, who is the founder of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, added: “She was funny, she was mischievous, she was witty. Mosse said when she first met Weldon, when 1983’s The Life And Loves Of A She-Devil was coming out, she was struck by her being an “absolute queen”. Mosse said: “She was enormously important, she was one of the great writers of the late 20th century and people, I think, sometimes forget how radical she was.” Kate Mosse said Fay Weldon was “one of the great writers of the late 20th century” as she paid tribute to the late author who died at the age of 91. The Labyrinth author added Weldon, who wrote The Life And Loves Of A She-Devil and Praxis, had a “radical message for women” to “have fun and be yourself”.

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Fay Weldon: 'It seems important that you should risk not being liked' (Financial Times)

The writer, who has died aged 91, was exhilaratingly defiant to the end. Susie Boyt reflects on the life and work of a remarkable figure who gave women a ...

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