Fay Weldon, a prolific novelist and one of the writers on the popular TV drama 'Upstairs, Downstairs,' has died at 91.
British author Fay Weldon, known for her sharp wit and acerbic observations about women’s experiences and sexual politics in novels including “The Life and Loves of a She-Devil,” has died at a nursing home in Northampton, England, at 91.Weldon was a playwright, screenwriter and prolific novelist, producing 30 novels as well as short stories and plays written for television, radio and the stage.
“I wouldn’t say my books were criticisms ... I would say they were observations,” she once told the Associated Press in an interview. “Women have a terrible time, they go on having a terrible time. Women who don’t have a terrible time are young, attractive, intelligent and don’t have children.” Weldon’s books were often feminist, but she was also known for controversial comments about feminism later in life. In 1998 she came under fire for her assertion in an interview with Radio Times magazine that rape ″isn’t the worst thing that can happen to a woman if you’re safe, alive and unmarked afterwards.” She said her comments were misinterpreted.
She published her first novel, “The Fat Woman’s Joke,” in 1967. In 2002, at age 70, she published her memoir, “Auto Da Fay.” The narrative described what she called her “mildly scandalous life until my mid-thirties” and concluded in 1963, just as Weldon’s career as a novelist began.
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