Formative early reading included Richard Scarry
and Kenneth Grahame
's The Wind in the Willows. Joanne Rowling did not care for Enid Blyton
as a young child but acquired a taste for her later...
Textual Production
Berta Ruck
BR
published He Learnt about Women (published in New York as He Learned about Women) with Mills and Boon
, a novel whose hero escapes the snares of various predatory women and goes on...
Family and Intimate relationships
Fay Weldon
In addition, she says, to coming from the kind of dysfunctional background she could relate to, he was well-read, artistic, bohemian,
Weldon, Fay. Auto da Fay. Flamingo.
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a house-owner, and a now-single parent. They walked together under a full moon...