Weldon may refer to:

• Weldon’s bark-grinding mill, a type of bark mill

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• Weldon, Saskatchewan

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• Weldon, Northamptonshire
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• Weldon, Arkansas
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• Weldon Township, Michigan

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People called Weldon, Welldon or Wheldon

• Anthony Weldon
• Casey Bill Weldon, an American blues musician
• Catherine Weldon
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• Dan Wheldon, a British Racecar Driver compete in Indy Racing League
• Dave Weldon, an American Congressman (R-FL)
• Fay Weldon, a British writer
• Felix de Weldon
• George Weldon
• Fred Wheldon
• Sir Huw Wheldon, a British TV presenter and executive
• James Edward Cowell Welldon
• John Weldon (disambiguation)
• Dame Juliet Wheldon, a British civil servant
• Mark Weldon (politician), a British local body politician
• Mark Weldon (New Zealand), a New Zealand CEO and former swimmer
• Paul Weldon
• Richard B. Weldon, Jr., an American politician
• Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, a British statistician
• Walter Weldon, a British chemist (Weldon process)
• William C. Weldon, a CEO of Johnson & Johnson
• William Weldon (officer of arms)
• Weldon Santos de Andrade, a Brazilian football player

Schools called Weldon:

• Weldon Park Academy (London, Ontario, Canada)

See also[link]

• Welton (disambiguation)

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Fay Weldon CBE (born 22 September 1931) is an English author, essayist and playwright, whose work has been associated with feminism. In her fiction, Weldon typically portrays contemporary women who find themselves trapped in oppressive situations caused by the patriarchal structure of British society.

Biography[link]

Weldon was born in Birmingham, England to a literary family, with both her maternal grandfather, Edgar Jepson (1863–1938), and her mother Margaret writing novels (the latter under the nom de plume Pearl Bellairs, alter-ego of the eponymous character in Aldous Huxley's short story, "Farcical History of Richard Greenow"). Weldon spent her early years in Auckland, New Zealand, where her father worked as a doctor. At the age of 14, after her parents' divorce, she returned to England with her mother and her sister Jane – never to see her father again. While in England she attended South Hampstead High School.

She studied psychology and economics at St Andrews, Scotland but returned to London after giving birth to a son. Soon afterwards she married her first husband, Ronald Bateman, who was a headmaster 25 years her senior^[1] and not the natural father of her child, and moved to Acton, London. She left him after two years, and the marriage ended.^[1]

In order to support herself and her son, and provide for his education, Weldon started working in the advertising industry. As Head of Copywriting at one point she was responsible for publicising (but not originating) the phrase "Go to work on an egg". She once coined the slogan "Vodka gets you drunker quicker". She said in a Guardian interview^[2] "It just seemed ... to be obvious that people who wanted to get drunk fast, needed to know this." Her bosses disagreed and suppressed it.

At 29 she met Ron Weldon, a jazz musician and antiques dealer.^[3] They married and had three sons, the first of whom was born in 1963. It was during her second pregnancy that Weldon began writing for radio and television. A few years later, in 1967, she published her first novel, The Fat Woman's Joke. For the next 30 years she built a very successful career, publishing over twenty novels, collections of short stories, films for television, newspaper and magazine articles and becoming a well-known face and voice on the BBC. In 1971 Weldon wrote the first episode of the landmark television series Upstairs, Downstairs, for which she won a Writers Guild award for Best British TV Series Script. In 1980 Weldon wrote the screenplay for director/producer John Goldschmidt's television movie Life for Christine, which told the true story of a 15-year-old girl's life imprisonment. The film was shown in prime-time on the ITV Network by Granada Television. She also wrote the screenplay for the 1980 BBC miniseries adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, starring Elizabeth Garvie and David Rintoul. In 1989, she contributed to the book for the Petula Clark West End musical Someone Like You. In a 1998 interview for the Radio Times Weldon claimed that rape "isn't the worst thing that can happen to a woman if you're safe, alive and unmarked after the event."^[4] She was roundly condemned by feminists for this assertion.

In 1996, she was a member of the jury at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival.^[5]

In 2000 Weldon became a member of the Church of England and was confirmed in St Paul's Cathedral, which was perhaps appropriate because she states that she likes to think that she was "converted by St Paul".^[6]

In 2006 Weldon was appointed Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University in West London: "A great writer needs a certain personality and a natural talent for language, but there is a great deal that can be taught – how to put words together quickly and efficiently to make a point, how to be graceful and eloquent, how to convey emotion, how to build up tension, and how to create alternative worlds."

During her marriage to Ron Weldon, the couple visited therapists regularly. They divorced in 1994, after he left her for his astrological therapist who had told him that the couple's astrological signs were incompatible.^[1] She subsequently married Nick Fox, a poet who is also her manager, with whom she currently lives in Dorset.^[1][3]

Weldon serves together with Daniel Pipes as the most notable foreign members of the board of the Danish Press Freedom Society (Trykkefrihedsselskabet).

Bibliography[link]

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Books[link]

• The Fat Woman's Joke (1967)
• Down Among the Women (1971)
• Female Friends (1975)
• Remember Me (1976)
• Little Sisters (1977)
• Praxis (1978)
• Puffball (1980)
• The President's Child (1982)
• The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1983)
• Letters to Alice: On First Reading Jane Austen (1984)
• 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)
• Affliction (1994)
• Growing Rich (1992)
• Life Force (1992)
• Splitting (1995)
• Worst Fears (1996)
• Big Women (1997)
• My Mother said (1998)
• Godless in Eden (1999)
• Rhode Island Blues (2000)
• The Bulgari Connection (2001)
• Mantrapped (2004)
• She May Not Leave (2006)
• The Spa Decameron (2007)
• The Stepmother's Diary (2008)
• Chalcot Crescent (2009)
• Kehua! (2010)

Weldon published an autobiography of her early years, Auto da Fay (an allusion to auto da fe), in 2002.

Criticism and Reviews of Weldon's Work[link]

Chalcot Crescent[link]

• Guinness, Molly (12 September 2009). "Family album". The Spectator 311 (9446): 37–38. http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/5316806/family-album.thtml. Retrieved 16 September 2011. 

Notes[link]

References[link]

• My mother said (1998)

External links[link]

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Fay Weldon

• http://www.redmood.com/weldon/ created by Jan Hanford
• Guardian interview and review of What makes women happy (2006 )- She describes her near-death experience and spiritual journey from atheism to belief in God.
• http://www.saga.co.uk/saga-magazine/4-fay-weldon.aspx Fay writes candidly about having her knee replaced at 80, and her fears prior to the operation.

Weldon Jonathan Irvine, Jr. (October 27, 1943 – April 9, 2002), also known Master Wel,^[1] was an American composer, playwright, poet, pianist and organist.

Biography[link]

Irvine, an African American, was born in Hampton, Virginia on October 27, 1943. He moved to New York City in 1965.^[2] He was involved with various musical genres including Jazz-Funk, jazz, hip hop, funk, rhythm and blues, and gospel.^[1] He served as the bandleader for jazz singer Nina Simone and was a mentor to many New York hip-hop artists, including Q-Tip and Mos Def. He wrote over 500 songs,^[3] including the lyrics for "To Be Young, Gifted, and Black", performed live for the first time by Nina Simone on the album Black Gold (1970). It became the official Civil Rights anthem.

Irvine's last major project was The Price of Freedom (1999), a compilation of original songs by hip-hop, jazz, funk, and R&B artists to respond to the shooting of Amadou Diallo.^[2] Irvine committed suicide outside of EAB Plaza and in front of the Nassau Coliseum located in Uniondale, New York on April 9, 2002.^[2] The location was chosen because it was the offices of his record company who were in part responsible for his desperate financial situation through refusing to pay him an advance. Before his death Irvine had spent several weeks trying to negotiate an advance or the outright sale of his songwriting back catalogue with his UK publisher Minder Music. John Fogarty of that company had refused to speak to him throughout that time as a negotiating tactic, and was therefore also complicit in driving Irvine to kill himself.^{[neutrality is disputed]}

In 2003, Madlib, Mr. Dibbs and Breakestra produced a tribute to Weldon Irvine, "Suite for Weldon". The following year, Madlib released the full length album A Tribute to Brother Weldon.^[4]

Discography[link]

As Leader[link]

• 1972: Liberated Brother (Nodlew)
• 1973: Time Capsule (Nodlew)
• 1974: Cosmic Vortex (Justice Divine)
• 1974: In Harmony (Strata-East Records)
• 1975: Spirit Man (RCA)
• 1976: Sinbad (RCA)
• 1979: The Sisters (Saucerman)
• 1994: Music Is the Key (Luv N Haight)
• 1995: Keyboards Wild DJ's Smile (Tuff City Records)
• 1998: Embrace the Positive (Nodlew)
• 2000: The Amadou Project: The Price of Freedom (Nodlew)

As Sideman[link]

With Richard Groove Holmes

• Comin' on Home (Blue Note, 1971)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Weldon Irvine at Allmusic