Fay Weldon Fay Weldon Fay Weldon CBE FRSL (born 22 September 1931) is an English author, essayist, feminist and playwright. Weldon was born Franklin Birkinshaw 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, from the name of a character in Aldous Huxley's short story "Farcical History of Richard Greenow"). Weldon spent her early years in Christchurch, New Zealand, where her father worked as a doctor. After her parents divorced, when she was six, she and her sister Jane spent the
Benjamin Franklin Stringfellow (1816–1891) the home of his daughter in Chicago, Illinois on April 26, 1891. Benjamin Franklin Stringfellow (1816–1891) "For his nephew of the same name, see Benjamin Franklin Stringfellow (1840-1913)" Benjamin Franklin Stringfellow (September 3, 1816 – April 26, 1891) was a pro-slavery border ruffian in Kansas, when the slavery issue was put to a local vote in 1855 under the Popular Sovereignty provision. As a General in the Missouri Militia, and ex-Attorney General of that state, Stringfellow openly defied the law by declaring that Missourians were free to vote in Kansas territory, and attacked abolitionist patrols in what became known as