According to critic Lana Faulks
, FW
felt that growing up in New Zealand (where her family were homies or immigrants from England) afforded her a kind of classlessness unavailable to anyone who grew up...
names
Fay Weldon
BirthName: Franklin Birkinshaw
FW
's mother invented her name for reasons of numerology: Franklin Birkinshaw produced the same numerical total as William Shakespeare. She was expecting a boy, and wanted to name him after...
