Alison Fell

AF is a Scottish feminist of working-class origins, resident in London, whose literary career began with 1970s women's street theatre. She has published as a journalist, poet, short-story writer, novelist, and children's writer.
  • BirthName: Alison Fell
    She is not the Alison S. Fell, feminist scholar of French literature, who in 2003 published Liberty, Equality, Maternity in Beauvoir , Leduc and Ernaux, and in 2007 edited, jointly with Ingrid Sharp , The Women's Movement in Wartime.

Milestones

Later 1944

AF was born at Dumfries in Scotland, the younger of two sisters.
Fell, Alison. “Rebel with a Cause”. Truth, Dare or Promise: Girls Growing Up in the Fifties, edited by Liz Heron, Virago, 1985, pp. 11-25.
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June 1979

AF edited with her own illustrations Hard Feelings: Fiction and Poetry, a selection from the feminist magazine Spare Rib.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
1982
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

15 June 1994

Serpent's Tail published a historical erotic novel by AF which purports to be a collaborative translation: The Pillow Boy of the Lady Onogoro, supposedly a text composed in Japan during the Heian period.
“Alison Fell”. Fantastic Fiction.
Fell, Alison. The Pillow Boy of the Lady Onogoro. Serpent’s Tail, 1994.
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Biography

Birth and Family

Later 1944

AF was born at Dumfries in Scotland, the younger of two sisters.
Fell, Alison. “Rebel with a Cause”. Truth, Dare or Promise: Girls Growing Up in the Fifties, edited by Liz Heron, Virago, 1985, pp. 11-25.
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