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Fay Weldon

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    (September 22, 1931- )
    Born in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
    Birth name is Franklin Birkinshaw
    Author of 'The Life and Loves of a She-Devil '(1983)
    Other works include 'Down Among the Women' (1971), 'Female Friends' (1974), 'Remember Me' (1976), 'Puffball' (1980), 'The Cloning of Joanna May (1989), 'Darcy’s Utopia' (1990), 'Growing Rich' (1992) and 'The Bulgari Connection' (2000)

Why she might be annoying:

    She claims that her book She Devil is 'about envy rather than revenge' (its about a spurned housewife who conspires to ruin her husband and his mistress' lives by getting him locked away for embezzlement - where would we get a crazy idea that its about revenge?).
    Her novel The Bulgari Connection became notorious for its product placement, name dropping the jewelers not only in the title but another 34 times throughout.
    She told The Radio Times that rape 'isn't the worst thing that can happen to a woman if you're safe, alive and unmarked after the event' (1998).
    Her view of the so-called 'Snowflake Generation?': 'We should stop being beastly to the snowflakes. Today’s young grow up into a violent, angry, unstable environment, all too likely to end up jobless, homeless and childless, unlikely to reach their full potential. They are probably the most despairing generation ever conceived. The least we can do is not add to their burden by slagging them off' (Shade!).

Why she might not be annoying:

    She began her career as an advertising copywriter in London.
    She coined the slogans 'Vodka gets you drunker quicker' and 'Go to Work on an Egg.'
    She won a Writers' Guild Award for the original screenplay for the pilot to Upstairs, Downstairs.
    She broke ground in the romance writing genre by making her heroines - in her words - 'overweight and plain women' deemed too often overlooked in the media.
    She wrote her most acclaimed novel at the ripe age of fifty-two.
    She was named Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2001.
    While she openly disliked the film version of She Devil with Roseanne Barr and Meryl Streep, she was much more receptive to the BBC miniseries adaptation.

Credit: BoyWiththeGreenHair


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    In 2023, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying