Fay Weldon, writer and hero of the women’s liberation movement, has died. She was 91. She’ll be remembered for many things. Her feminism. Her subsequent turn against feminism. Her dazzling, acerbic prose. The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, her best-known novel. Praxis, her best novel. Her TV writing, which famously includes penning the first episode of Upstairs, Downstairs. And of course her life, which was superbly lived, and which she divided into two parts: the ‘mildly scandalous’ and ‘delinquent’ years, that lasted till she was 32, and the serious years, in which she became, by her own definition, a ‘writeaholic’. Her autobiography – Auto Da Fay – is a rollicking read.
