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Fay Weldon (innate September 22, 1931) is a British novelist, short story writer, playwright and essayist whose work has been associated by using a stimulator of feminism. Withwithin her fiction, Weldon occasionally portrays contemporary women world health organization locate themselves treed in oppressive situations from either a patriarchal structure of Western, particularly British, society.

Weldon was natural Franklwithin Birkinshaw in Alvechurch, Worcestershire, England to a literary personal, sustaining two her enate gramps, Edgar Jepson (1863-1938), and her have mother Margaret writing novels (a latter under a nom de plume Pearl Bellairs, after the character from either Huxley's 1922 novel Crome Yellow). Weldon spent a number one years of her life inside Auckland, New Zealand, where her father worked as a doctor, however at a age of Fourteen, fallowing her parents' divorcement, moved to Engl& by using her mother and her sister Jane, never to understand her father over again.

She attend St Andrews, Scotland to study psychology and economics but moved to London after giving birth to an illegitimate. Presently after she married her 1st married man, Ronald Bateman, a teacher Xx years her senior & non a natural father of her boy, & began to sleep in Acton, London. the few had a divorcement fallowing lone 2 years. To trend lines herself & her boy, world health organization was at present attend school, Weldon began working in the advertising industry. When Head of Copywriting at one point she was responsible for publicising a sentence "Go to work on an egg".

At Xxix she met Ronald Weldon, an antiques dealer. It married &, starting around 1963, produced three other sons. It was in the period of her 2nd gestation that Weldon began writing for radio and television. Two or three years late, around 1967, she published her first novel, ''The Fat Woman's Joke. For the next Xxx years she built the super successful career, publishing terminated Twenty novels, collections of short stories, television film, newspaper & magazine articles & becoming the easily-known face & voice on the BBC.

Around 1994, Ronald and Fay Weldon divorced. She later on married Nick Fox, a poet, by having whom she presently sleep in Hampstead, London.

Novels

The Fat Woman's Joke (1967) Down Among the Women (1971) Female Friends (1975) Remember Me (1976) Little Sisters (1977) Praxis (1978) Puffball (1980) The President's Child (1982) The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1983) The Shrapnel Academy (1986) The Heart of the Country (1987) The Hearts and Lives of Men (1987) Leader of the Band (1988) The Cloning of Joanna May (1989) Darcy's Utopia (1990) Affliction (1994) Growing Rich (1992) Life Force (1992) Splitting (1995) Worst Fears (1996) Big Women (1997) Rhode Island Blues (2000) The Bulgari Connection (2001) Mantrapped (2004)

Weldon published an autobiography of her early years, Auto de Fay, in 2002 (an allusion to auto de fe'').

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