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.

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, 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.
1982
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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.
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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, pp. 11-25.
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