Fay Weldon, Auto Da Fay

Mara Reisman (Northern Arizona University)

Ed. by Kerry Myler, Birmingham Newman University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Gina Lyle (University of Glasgow), Graham MacPhee (University of Manchester), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 2002

Places

England (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Non-Fiction
- Autobiography (literary)

Resources

Save to Bookshelf

Auto da Fay

(2002) chronicles British author Fay Weldon’s early life in New Zealand and England and her path to becoming a prominent and prolific writer. Weldon’s attention to her family’s history, the book’s tangential rather than linear structure, the insights she provides about her fiction, and her perceptive and detailed cultural observations are some of the distinguishing features of her autobiography. Addressing the social history that Weldon includes, Susan Jeffreys observes that

Weldon is not so wrapped up in telling the extraordinary facts of her life not to notice the scenery around her. Her account of arriving among the blasted buildings of post-war Britain, of sexual politics before and after the pill, about suburban behaviour and social mores, are sharp and

Please log in to consult the article in its entirety. If you are a member (student of staff) of a subscribing institution (see List), you should be able to access the LE on campus directly (without the need to log in), and off-campus either via the institutional log in we offer, or via your institution's remote access facilities, or by creating a personal user account with your institutional email address. If you are not a member of a subscribing institution, you will need to purchase a personal subscription. For more information on how to subscribe as an individual user, please see under Individual Subcriptions.

3865 words

Citation: Reisman, Mara. "Auto Da Fay". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 29 April 2023 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=14322, accessed 19 April 2024.]

Save this article