Fay Weldon  

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Fay Weldon (1931 – 2023) was a British author, essayist and playwright best-known as the writer of The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1983). Her protagonists are often fat women and ugly women who are fighting in the war of the sexes.

Literary works

Novels

• The Fat Woman's Joke (1967)
• Down Among the Women (1971)
• Words of Advice (1974)
• Little Sisters (1975)
• Female Friends (1975)
• Remember Me (1976)
• Praxis (1978)
• Puffball (1980)
• The President's Child (1982)
• The Shrapnel Academy (1986)
• The Heart of the Country (1987)
• The Hearts and Lives of Men (1987)
• Leader of the Band (1988)
• The Cloning of Joanna May (1989)
• Darcy's Utopia (1990)
• Growing Rich (1992)
• Life Force (1992)
• Question of Timing (1992)
• Trouble (1993)
• Affliction (1994)
• Splitting (1995)
• Worst Fears (1996)
• Big Women (1997)
• Rhode Island Blues (2000)
• The Bulgari Connection (2000)
• Mantrapped (2004)
• She May Not Leave (2006)
• The Spa Decameron (2007)
• The Stepmother's Diary (2008)
• Chalcot Crescent (2009)
• Kehua! (2010)

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Series

She Devil

• The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1983)
• Death of a She Devil (2017)

Love and Inheritance

• Habits of the House (2012)
• Long Live the King (2013)
• The New Countess (2013)
• Love and Inheritance Trilogy (2013) – Omnibus

Spoils of War

• Before the War (2017)
• After the Peace (2018)

The Chapbooks

• The Rules of Life (1987)
• Wolf the Mechanical Dog (1988)
• The Roots of Violence (1989)
• Party Puddle (1989)

Non-fiction

• Letters to Alice: On First Reading Jane Austen (1984)
• Rebecca West (1985)
• Sacred Cows: A Portrait of Britain, Post-Rushdie, Pre-Utopia (1989)
• Godless in Eden (1999)
• Auto da Fay (2002) – an autobiography of her early years.
• What Makes Women Happy (2006)
• Why Will No-One Publish My Novel? (2018)

Plays

• Madame Bovary: Breakfast with Emma (2003)
• Flood Warning (2003)
• The Four Alice Bakers (1999)
• The Reading Group (1999)
• Tess of The D’urbervilles (1992)
• Knightley’s State (1990)
• Someone Like You (1989)
• Nana (1988)
• Hole in the Top Of The World (1987)
• A Dolls House (1988)
• Jane Eyre, an adaptation of the novel by Charlotte Brontë, first performed 1986 (The Playhouse Theatre, London)
• After The Prize (1981)
• I Love My Love (1981)
• Action Replay - A Play (1980), first performed 1979 (Birmingham Repertory Studio Theatre);<ref>Published by A Samuel French, Acting Edition.</ref>
• Mr. Director (1977)
• Moving House (1976)
• Friends (1975)
• Words of Advice (1970)
• Permanence (1969)
• Mixed Doubles (1969)
• The Last Word? (1967)

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Anthologies containing stories by Fay Weldon

• The 4th Bumper Book of Ghost Stories (1980)
• The Literary Ghost (1991)
• The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women (1995)
• The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996)
• Mistresses of the Dark (1998)
• The Mammoth Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1998)
• Crossing the Border (1998)
• The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories (2000)

Collections and Omnibus

• Watching Me, Watching You (1981)
• Polaris (1985)
• Moon Over Minneapolis (1991)
• Angel, All Innocence (1995)
• Wicked Women (1995)
• A Hard Time to Be a Father (1998)
• Nothing to Wear and Nowhere to Hide (2002)
• Poolside (2007) - with Alice Adams, Amy Bloom, John Cheever, Ernest Hemingway, A. M. Homes, Andrea Lee, Joyce Carol Oates, Edna O'Brien, Julie Orringer, James Purdy, Graham Swift, John Updike and David Foster Wallace
• Great Escapes (2008) - with Amanda Craig, Virginia Ironside, Kathy Lette, Deborah Moggach, Kate Mosse, Lesley Pearse, Rose Tremain, Jane Elizabeth Varley and Isabel Wolff
• Fay Weldon Omnibus: Collected Works of Fay Weldon (2014)
• Mischief (2015)
• The Collected Novels Volume One (2018)

The Collected Novels Volume Two (2018)

• The Collected Novels Volume Three (2018)

Short stories and novellas

• "Angel, All Innocence" (1977) – short story
• "Weekend" (1978) – short story
• "Spirit of the House" (1980) – short story
• "Watching Me, Watching You" (1981) – short story
• "Down the Clinical Disco" (1985) – short story
• "A Good Sound Marriage" (US Journal, 1991) – short story
• The Ted Dreams (2014) – novella

Television series (writer)

• Upstairs Downstairs (1971) (first episode, two others)
• Pride and Prejudice (1980)
• Heart of the Country (1987)
• Growing Rich (1992)
• Big Women (1998)

In theory

• Plain and Ugly Janes: The Rise of the Ugly Woman in Contemporary American Fiction (2014) by Charlotte M. Wright
• Gender, I-deology: Essays on Theory, Fiction and Film (1996), edited by Chantal Cornut-Gentille D'Arcy, José Angel García Landa

Linking in at time of death

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