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The British writer was best known for her novel 'The Life and Loves of a She-Devil'

Under the roof your i servants have run riot. she wrote the original upstairs downstairs but her scripts were too spiky for itv prime—time. typically, she wrote playful and punchy stories in which women were exploited by men but they often got their own back. in praxis, the pregnant heroine got a warning from an old woman in one story. puffball, one of her best novels, later became a film, and by the end of her life the view of women in society had changed a lot. it wasn'tjust feminism that changed things. it was technology and birth control, it was all kinds of other things. sometimes i thi...

Much of Weldon's fiction explored issues surrounding women’s relationships with men, children, parents and each other, including the 1971 'Down Among The Women' and 'Female Friends,' published in 1975.

Literary figures have paid tribute to Alvechurch’s Fay Weldon who has died.

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Fay Weldon's life, like her novels, was full of drama - from working as a Soho hostess to three disastrous marriages and even rape.