406:: "I was born large, blonde and big-boned into a family of small beautiful women. My mother thought it was unlikely that anyone would marry me, and therefore I would have to pass exams, earn my own living and make my own way in the world. Or that’s what I thought she thought." She goes on to explain how this view of herself affected her later writing career. "I’d be happier to have been seen as a skinny, feisty child, a slim and serious adult, and a handsome octogenarian with an interesting literary past. But that was not to be, despite a lifetime of diets. It was however a state of affairs which made me write a good few novels with overweight, plain women as their heroines. I’ve always been on their side – they are the unseen majority."
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Spotlight and just choosing the girl they both most fancied. And they were amazed when I objected: female skill, talent, experience, intelligence meant nothing to them".
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727:, she expressed ambivalence about the successes of feminism. Social change had been enormous, "thanks to feminism", but it wasn't all wonderful: "We saw a world of young, healthy, intelligent, striving women. And we didn't really, honestly, take much notice of those who were not like us."
614:: "It was written as the Dickens novels were written....You made it up as you went along, confined by the structure of the story, which is going to go on for you don't know how long—but you have to be able to bring it to an end with three weeks' warning."
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388:, New Zealand, where her father, Frank Thornton Birkinshaw, worked as a doctor. In 1936, when she was five, her parents agreed to separate, later divorcing (1940). She and her sister Jane spent the summers with her father, first in
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Sacred Cows: A Portrait of Britain, Post-Rushdie, Pre-Utopia
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as the most notable foreign members of the board of the
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The Mammoth Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories
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2601:Published by A Samuel French, Acting Edition.
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2445:"The Life And Loves of Fay Weldon"
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1801:Maunder, Andrew (22 April 2015).
1604:The Collected Novels Volume Three
1272:Why Will No-One Publish My Novel?
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2288:Blamires, Diana (30 June 1998).
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1859:Steward, Ian (9 November 2009).
1838:. Grove Press. 2003. p. 2.
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2683:"Fay Weldon on her 30th novel"
2611:Weldon, Fay (1 January 1994).
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2290:"Fay Weldon causes rape storm"
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628:In 2000, Weldon's novel
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1414:Collections and Omnibus
1305:Someone Like You (1989)
1203:Wolf the Mechanical Dog
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369:(1863–1938), her uncle
2722:What Makes Women Happy
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1344:Words of Advice (1970)
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1323:After The Prize (1981)
1265:What Makes Women Happy
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1432:Moon Over Minneapolis
1353:The Last Word? (1967)
1326:I Love My Love (1981)
1209:The Roots of Violence
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1980:Weldon, Fay (2003).
1965:Weldon, Fay (2003).
1950:Weldon, Fay (2003).
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2759:Library of Congress
2613:Der Mann ohne Augen
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565:Pride and Prejudice
306:Franklin Birkinshaw
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2522:The New York Times
2392:Grice, Elizabeth,
2098:The New York Times
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1766:Armitstead, Claire
1371:The Literary Ghost
1151:Long Live the King
1052:Rhode Island Blues
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1502:Joyce Carol Oates
1347:Permanence (1969)
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