![]() ![]() While in England, she won a scholarship to study at the South Hampstead School. Weldon says that she had no intention of becoming a writer at that time as her mind mostly occupied by the idea of getting married and having babies. At the age of 15, she moved back to England to live with her mother. Weldon studied at the Girls’ High School in Christchurch for a couple of years. Following the divorce of her parents when she was six years old, she and her sister lived with her father in Coromandel and Auckland. Weldon was brought up in Christchurch, New Zealand as her father was employed there as a doctor. Her family was full of novelists and so, she had a literary environment while growing up. Usually, Weldon’s works portray contemporary women who are caught in oppressive situations because of the British Society’s patriarchal structure.Īuthor Weldon was born as Franklin Birkinshaw on September 22, 1931, in Birmingham, England. She has collaborated with many other authors, including Amanda Craig, Deborah Moggach, Rose Tremain, John Updike, Amy Bloom, Lesley Pearse, John Cheever, Andrea Lee, Isabel Wolff, etc. Additionally, Weldon has written numerous standalone books, essay and short story collections, novellas, and nonfiction books in her career. ![]() She is famous for writing women’s fiction, contemporary, and literature & fiction stories and is particularly well known for creating the Love & Inheritance series, Spoils of War series, and the She Devil series. Fay Weldon is a prominent English author, playwright, and essayist, who is known for her work based on feminism. ![]()
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