Fay Weldon

Standard Name: Weldon, Fay
Birth Name: Franklin Birkinshaw
Nickname: Fay
Self-constructed Name: Fay Davies
Married Name: Franklin Bateman
Married Name: Franklin Weldon
Married Name: Franklin Fox
Internationally acclaimed as a novelist, playwright and essayist, FW is a prolific writer whose work ranges over many genres and media, and in 2017 amounted to thirty-four novels, seven short-story volumes, three books for children, and six non-fictional works.
Armitstead, Claire. “Fay Weldon: ’Feminism was a success, but then you lose a generation’”. theguardian.com.
Her fiction is translated into over a dozen languages. She has written numerous television and radio dramas, stage plays, non-fictional articles and studies, autobiography and experimental or mock autobiography. She has never, she says, written poetry.
Colour photo of Fay Weldon standing in a library at an event during the Oxford Literary Festival, 3 April 2011. She wears a grey top and a colourful patterened scarf.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Occupation Ann Jellicoe
The Trust set out to produce historical community plays with west-country associations, including works written for it by Fay Weldon and David Edgar . With some difficulty, AJ succeeded in securing ongoing funding for it...
Intertextuality and Influence Meiling Jin
In the introduction to the book of poems that was her first publication, MJ noted that poetry was a form of expression that comes easier to me than most others. This state of affairs was...
Literary responses Penelope Lively
Fay Weldon calls this novel James ian . . . in its complexities and its carefulness.
Lively, Penelope. Heat Wave. HarperPerennial.
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Literary responses Shena Mackay
SM 's fellow-novelists greeted this work with a chorus of praise. Anita Brookner called it something quite rare . . . a rite of passage which will leave few readers unaffected.
Mackay, Shena. The Orchard on Fire. Vintage.
prelims
Fay Weldon said...
Travel Iris Murdoch
After IM 's stimulating visit to Paris in 1947, that city became permanently necessary in her life.
Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins.
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Later, Murdoch and her husband visited many parts of the world, either on holiday (Scotland,...
Intertextuality and Influence Ann Oakley
This is the first of AO 's novels without a central female protagonist; and the result is a certain lack of focus. The story is set at a resort on the coast of Turkey...
Occupation Bernice Rubens
When she first moved to London she worked as a so-called lady's maid (a job for which she was totally unqualified).
Rubens, Bernice. When I Grow Up. Time Warner Books.
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Then she was taken on to teach English at Burgess Hill School ...
Literary responses Ali Smith
Some reviewers have taken umbrage at the perceived anti-capitalism of AS ' novel, among them Michael Upchurch of The New York Times, who complained at Smith's sympathetic portrayal of Else. He rendered this as...
Textual Production Christina Stead
This was a novel about her former boyfriend Keith Duncan . It began in the early 1930s as The Young Man Will Go Far then became The Travelling Scholar before acquiring its final title.
Rowley, Hazel. Christina Stead: A Biography. Secker and Warburg.
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Publishing Mary Stott
Together with Pamela Anderson and Fay Weldon , Mary Stott published Simple Steps to Public Life, with illustrations by Tony Bethall .
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Joanna Trollope
JT 's modernised retelling of Sense and Sensibility (published in October 2013), is one of a series of projected Jane Austen updates. In January 2014 Trollope discussed Austen in a podcast with Fay Weldon in...
Textual Features Michelene Wandor
This includes work by Nora Bartlett , Sara Maitland , Judith Kazantzis , Wendy Mulford , Libby Houston , Cora Kaplan , Michèle Roberts , Angela Carter , Noel Greig , Rozsika Parker , Alison Hennegan
Literary responses Rebecca West
Some critics have taken issue with the sudden shift in tone, characterisation, and focus in Book Two. Harold Orel, for instance, comments that the second part resembles a case history drawn from some psychiatrist's notebook...
Literary responses Rebecca West
RW received a great deal of fan mail in response to this novel, which recent critics count among her best.
Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton.
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Novelist Fay Weldon has described Richard Quin, the younger brother, as one of the...

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Texts

Weldon, Fay. Praxis. Hodder and Stoughton, 1978.
Weldon, Fay. Puffball. Hodder and Stoughton, 1980.
Weldon, Fay. Rebecca West. Penguin, 1985.
Weldon, Fay. Remember Me. Hodder and Stoughton, 1976.
Weldon, Fay. Rhode Island Blues. Flamingo, 2000.
Weldon, Fay. Sacred Cows. Chatto and Windus, 1989.
Anderson, Pamela et al. Simple Steps to Public Life. Virago, 1980.
Weldon, Fay. Splitting. Flamingo, 1995.
Weldon, Fay. The Bulgari Connection. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001.
Weldon, Fay. The Cloning of Joanna May. Collins, 1989.
Weldon, Fay. The Fat Woman’s Joke. MacGibbon and Kee, 1967.
Weldon, Fay. The Heart of the Country. Hutchinson, 1987.
Weldon, Fay. The Hearts and Lives of Men. Heinemann, 1987.
Weldon, Fay, and David Bailey. The Lady is a Tramp: Portraits of Catherine Bailey. Thames and Hudson, 1995.
Weldon, Fay. The Life and Loves of a She-Devil. Hodder and Stoughton, 1983.
Weldon, Fay. The President’s Child. Hodder and Stoughton, 1982.
Weldon, Fay. The Shrapnel Academy. Hodder and Stoughton, 1986.
Weldon, Fay. Watching Me, Watching You. Hodder and Stoughton, 1981.
Weldon, Fay. Wicked Women. Flamingo, 1995.
Weldon, Fay. Words of Advice. Random House, 1977.
Weldon, Fay. Worst Fears. Flamingo, 1996.