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	Fay Weldon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fay Weldon (born September 22, 1931) is a British novelist, short story writer, playwright and essayist whose work has been associated with feminism.
		Weldon was born Franklin Birkinshaw in Alvechurch, Worcestershire, England to a literary family, with both her maternal grandfather, Edgar Jepson (1863-1938), and her own mother Margaret writing novels (the latter under the nom de plume Pearl Bellairs, after a character from Huxley's 1922 novel Crome Yellow).
		Weldon spent the first years of her life in Auckland, New Zealand, where her father worked as a doctor, but at the age of 14, after her parents' divorce, moved to England with her mother and her sister Jane, never to see her father again.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fay_Weldon (497 words)

	FAY WELDON
		Weldon's novels are war by other means, though a sort of peace is eventually rumored.) As for "all that early stuff," she writes it as the dark clay from which her glazed pots were fashioned.
		Weldon is so appalled at the tawdry life led by her younger self that she is forced to lapse into the third person.) Employment as a waitress is followed by being a cake-shop proprietor, a factory worker, a nightclub hostess in London's seedy Soho district, and finally, a highly successful advertising copywriter.
		Weldon's inability to see that it was far too outrageous to make it into the public domain gives the reader a foretaste of that lack of critical judgement regarding her own fiction which would finally prevent her from making a serious contribution to the postwar English novel.
	www.arlindo-correia.com /fay_weldon.html (8838 words)

	Weldon, Fay
		That teleplay had been written while Weldon was working as a highly successful copywriter for English print and television advertising; her previous work included the still remembered "Get to work on an egg" campaign.
		While Weldon's real progress as a writer has often been traced back to the mid-1960s, it was in the early 1970s that she began fully to establish both her name and public voice.
		But as David Frost learned in 1971, Weldon's relation to feminism is not always what it might seem: invited onto Frost's television program to rebut feminist activists, she instead surprised everyone by publicly embracing their complaints.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/W/htmlW/weldonfay/weldonfay.htm (847 words)

	Mantrapped by Fay Weldon: Reviews
		Weldon is never less than readable and always amusing, and when she's commenting on herself and her own life instead of ''society,'' she can be extremely acute.
		Weldon's eye for human weakness and vanity is as sharp and unforgiving as ever, and there's mean-spirited fun to be had in her blistering account of husband Ron Weldon's self-pity and self-serving contempt for his wife's popular success.
		Weldon leaves the distinct impression that she tired of her tale and chose to wind it up with a flaccid denouement that wouldn't be out of place in an American TV sitcom.
	www.metacritic.com /books/authors/weldonfay/mantrapped (588 words)

	Weldon, Fay Criticism and Essays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-15)
		Weldon was born in Alvechurch, Worcestershire, England, and spent her early childhood in New Zealand.
		Weldon then went to the University of St. Andrews, earning her master's degree in economics and psychology in 1952; in 1988 she received a Ph.D. in literature from the University of Bath and a subsequent doctoral degree in literature from the University of St. Andrews in 1992.
		Weldon is known for infusing her works of social commentary with biting wit and grotesque imagery.
	www.enotes.com /contemporary-literary-criticism/weldon-fay-vol-122 (800 words)

	Fay Weldon
		Fay Weldon is not so wrapped up in telling the extraordinary facts of her life not to notice the scenery around her.
		Fay Weldon was born Franklin Birkinshaw in Worcestershire in 1931.
		Weldon has four sons of whom she is immensely proud, finally found love with second husband Ron Weldon, and despite divorce and his death, found it again with Nick Fox, with whom she lives.
	www.arlindo-correia.com /020702.html (15914 words)

	Amazon.ca: Big Girls Don't Cry: Books: Fay Weldon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-15)
		Weldon's twentysomethings are as lovingly and astringently drawn as her fiftysomethings, and have as much to contribute to the clever plot.
		Weldon aficionados will recognize the predatory males, stock figures in the writer's repertoire, and the savvily sketched predicaments facing her feisty feminist heroines.
		Weldon's characters give us all a short, succinct course in feminist history, as they rise from humble beginnings (naked dancing in a living room for all to see) to forces to be reckoned with in publishing circles.
	www.amazon.ca /Big-Girls-Dont-Fay-Weldon/dp/0871137593 (994 words)

	Big Girls Don't Cry / Big Women - Fay Weldon
		Weldon does not suffer fools gladly (which makes us wonder why she puts up with publishers who tamper with her creations), and while it is a novel that is told from a woman's perspective it is not simplistically feminist in any way.
		Weldon is hard on all her characters, the men as well as the women.
		Fay Weldon, born in England and raised in New Zealand, received her M.A. in economics and psychology from St. Andrews University in Scotland.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/weldonf/bigwomen.htm (996 words)

	RTE.ie Entertainment - Auto Da Fay: a memoir by Fay Weldon
		Weldon began life as she was to continue, moving from place to place, adapting quickly in order to survive.
		Weldon spent most of her summers with her father and her sister and she has mostly happy memories of this time.
		Weldon spent her teenage years in London, studied hard and was accepted into university in Scotland.
	www.rte.ie /arts/2002/0528/weldonf.html (393 words)

	Fay Birkinshaw Weldon Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Whether Fay Birkinshaw Weldon was born on September 22 of 1931 or of 1933 is uncertain; what is certain, however, is that this British author of internationally acclaimed novels, short stories, screen plays, and television and radio dramas, as well as works of biography and historical criticism, descended from a line of writers.
		Weldon was married in the early 1950s to a schoolmaster who was 25 years her senior.
		Weldon's childhood experience in a largely female world as a child of divorce raised by a working mother, as well as her own later struggle as a single mother, are reflected in the characters who people her fictional worlds.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/fay-birkinshaw-weldon (1019 words)

	RTE.ie Entertainment - Fay accompli - Fay Weldon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-15)
		When you ask Fay Weldon why she chose to be a writer, she responds simply with 'I didn't choose the path, the path chose me'.
		Weldon, however, put several literary noses out of joint when she included the name three times more than contracted to, and even included it in the title.
		Weldon explains: "The intention was that once written, the novel would be limited to 750 beautifully bound copies commissioned and published by Bulgari.
	wwa.rte.ie /arts/2001/1011/weldonf.html (539 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Fay Weldon
		Bio: Fay Weldon was born in England in 1933.
		Weldon returned to the United Kingdom to pursue a degree in psychology and economics at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
		Weldon was briefly married to an older man, a union which produced one son.
	www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/FayWeldoneBooks.htm (353 words)

	Bookreporter.com - AUTO DA FAY: A Memoir by Fay Weldon
		Fay Weldon is the author of twenty-four novels, five short story collections, two children's books, four works of nonfiction, several plays, and now AUTO DA FAY, a memoir.
		Weldon was born in 1931 and raised in a rural New Zealand town called Napier.
		But fortunately for us, she does raise 'those' deep questions; the ones we all struggle with and, fundamentally, Fay Weldon is as unconventional in her writing as she is in her life.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0802117503.asp (641 words)

	UConn Advance - April 17, 2006 - British author Fay Weldon offers creative writing tips
		British author Fay Weldon, known for feminist perception and wit in her stories about marriage, modern life, and mores, wrote, by her count, at least eight novels during a three-day visit to the Storrs campus recently.
		Weldon, the Aetna Visiting Writer in Residence for the spring semester, worked closely with 10 creative writing students, most of whom were writing novels.
		Weldon began as an advertising writer in London in the 1960s, working in what was then a wide open field, writing television commercials.
	www.advance.uconn.edu /2006/060417/06041708.htm (497 words)

	Fay Weldon
		Novelist, playwright and screenwriter Fay Weldon was born on 22 September 1931.
		Fay Weldon is a former member of both the Arts Council literary panel and the film and video panel of Greater London Arts.
		Fay Weldon's work includes over twenty novels, five collections of short stories, several children's books, non-fiction books, magazine articles and a number of plays written for television, radio and the stage, including the pilot episode for the television series Upstairs Downstairs.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=auth121 (1593 words)

	Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Fay Weldon
		Fay Weldon was born in Worcester, England in 1933.
		Fay subsequently married Nick Fox, a poet, and her writing and career continue to flourish.
		Weldon follows the lives of four women from 1971 to the present as they build a feminist publishing house that links them through the years.
	www.bookreporter.com /authors/au-weldon-fay.asp (2202 words)

	Novels - Fay Weldon
		Fay Weldon (born September 22, 1931) is a United Kingdom novelist, short story writer, playwright and essayist whose work has been associated with the cause of feminism.
		Weldon was born Franklin Birkinshaw in Alvechurch, Worcestershire, England to a literary family, with both her maternal grandfather, Edgar Jepson (1863-1938), and her own mother Margaret writing novels (the latter under the nom de plume Pearl Bellairs, after a character from Aldous Huxleys 1922 in literature novel Crome Yellow).
		Mantrapped (2004 in literature) Weldon published an autobiography of her early years, Auto de Fay, in 2002 in literature (an allusion to auto de fe).
	mywebpage.netscape.com /Adachi4101/fay-weldon-novels.html (409 words)

	Fay Weldon's Candid Autobiography - Reviews - Auto Da Fay - Book Review Contemporary Review - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-15)
		Fay Weldon is never less than candid, and her style is almost always so forthright and self-regarding that any hint of explanatory notes in a quasi-Freudian manner are out of the question.
		Fay Weldon quotes Cyril Connolly's remark that there is no more sombre enemy of good art than a pram in the hail, and this explains the kind of memoir intended here.
		Fay Weldon has produced what Priestley might have called 'an entertainment' and a thoroughly enjoyable read it is, too.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2242/is_1650_282/ai_105744931 (705 words)

	Swans Commentary: A Novel Way To Advertise: Fay Weldon And The Bulgari Connection, by Alma Hromic - aah011
		Weldon started her career as an advertising copywriter for the advertising giant Ogilvy & Mather may have something to do with the fact that, apparently, she did this job well.
		Fay Weldon's track record and reputation lies in the "literary" quality of her work.
		Fay Weldon is delighted with the whole thing, and said she would consider another, similar, commission -- she claims that the idea itself is irrelevant, or at least the place where it comes from is. "The novel is still what you want to write," Weldon says.
	www.swans.com /library/art7/aah011.html (1517 words)

	BBC News \| ARTS \| Weldon's sparkling book deal
		Fay Weldon is thought to have become the first author to be paid for product placement in a book after signing a deal with an Italian jewellery firm.
		Weldon's latest work had originally been due to be distributed only to Bulgari's 750 best clients - but publishers have decided they like it so much it will get a full public release.
		Weldon, who was paid a "not huge" amount of money to mention Bulgari 12 times, has titled her book The Bulgari Connection and the company gets at least three dozen name checks.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/1524437.stm (611 words)

	Zenana Book Club: Fay Weldon
		Fay Weldon was born in Worcester, England in 1931 (or 1933).
		She then went through a mid-life crisis: "I was thirty, inadequate and depressed and ignorant, and knew it." She went through psychoanalysis, which gave her the self-knowledge and courage to give up advertising and start writing.
		Fay subsequently married Nick Fox, a poet 15 years her junior, and her writing and career continue to flourish.
	kemodogstar.tripod.com /AuthorBios/Weldon.html (477 words)

	Fay Weldon: Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-15)
		Fay Weldon was supposed to be born in New Zealand, but instead was born in England in 1931.
		Her actual christened name was "Franklin Birkinshaw" (something to do with her mother's interest in numerology) which she feels contributed to her being accepted at St Andrews and permitted to study economics: the school assumed she was a male student applicant.
		In October 2002 Fay was named the first writer-in-residence at The Savoy Hotel in London.
	redmood.com /weldon/biography.html (450 words)

	Mantrapped - Fay Weldon
		Mantrapped resembles many of Fay Weldon's books: direct, entertainingly presented in short sections, the narrative jumping all about, covering her usual concerns (the lives of women (and, incidentally, men).
		Along the way, Weldon describes how Trisha has fallen so far, as well as the lives of some others, including her entrepreneurial landlady and Peter and his partner (but not wife) Doralee.
		The fiction that runs alongside fact is of the more familiar Weldon sort, an unlikely -- indeed, unbelievable -- occurrence used to illustrate the lives and roles of men and women, all quite cleverly and thoroughly engagingly done.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/weldonf/mtrapped.htm (1058 words)

	Independent Online Edition > News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-15)
		Fay Weldon has committed a sin so terrible, so crass, so commercial, that she may be remembered now for betraying her art and sullying the literary tradition for ever.
		Ms Weldon has committed a sin so terrible, so crass, so commercial, that she may be remembered now for betraying her art and sullying the literary tradition for ever.
		While her mood was undefensive, Ms Weldon did point out that there is a long tradition of artists seeking the patronage of rich sponsors.
	enjoyment.independent.co.uk /books/news/article213546.ece (1403 words)

	BFI \| Features \| NFT Interviews \| Fay Weldon and Jean Marsh
		Fay Weldon and Jean Marsh were interviewed at the NFT on Tuesday 13 December 2005 by Matthew Sweet.
		Fay, a lot of your correspondence is sitting in a vault at the University of Indiana.
		And as a question to Fay, which characters who then moved on did you go 'bugger, there was so much more we could have done with them.' You know, like Pauline Collins left after a couple of series.
	www.bfi.org.uk /features/interviews/weldon-marsh.html (7094 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Authors \| Weldon, Fay
		Weldon was responsible for the 1970s ad slogan "Go to work on an egg.
		Weldon's tragicomic novels deal with women's troubled relationships with parents, men, children and other women; in the late 60s she became the voice of rising feminist consciousness in the UK (Weldon grew up with her grandmother, mother and sister, and believed the world was "peopled by females").
		Even in her darkest novels, the dry humour never fails to raise a smile (although she is far more effective when playing it for laughs, as in the excellent Puffball); in recent years she has emerged as an unlikely champion of men's rights.
	books.guardian.co.uk /authors/author/0,5917,-138,00.html (245 words)

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