Jill Tweedie
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Jill Sheila Tweedie was an influential feminist
, writer and broadcaster. She was educated at the independent Croydon High School
in Croydon
, South London. She is mainly remembered for her column in The Guardian
on feminist issues (1969-1988), 'Letters from a faint-hearted feminist' and for her autobiography Eating Children (1993). She succeeded Mary Stott
as a principal columnist on The Guardian's Women's Page.
Her light style and left-leaning politics were sometimes caricatured ("Jill Twaddle") as modish, but she captured the spirit of moderate feminism in the late 1970s/1980s. In November 2005 she was one of only five women included in the Press Gazette's 40-strong gallery of most influential British journalists.
She was married three times—to the Hungarian Count Cziraky, to Bob d'Ancona, and finally to journalist Alan Brien
, her partner until her death from motor neurone disease
in 1993.
She is commemorated in a group portrait at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG6247) with fellow Guardian Women's Page contributors Mary Stott
, Polly Toynbee
, Posy Simmonds
and Liz Forgan
.
Feminism
Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women. Its concepts overlap with those of women's rights...
, writer and broadcaster. She was educated at the independent Croydon High School
Croydon High School
Croydon High School for Girls GDST is a leading non-denominational independent school for girls, located near Croydon, Greater London, England. It is one of the schools in the Girls' Day School Trust....
in Croydon
Croydon
Croydon is a town in South London, England, located within the London Borough of Croydon to which it gives its name. It is situated south of Charing Cross...
, South London. She is mainly remembered for her column in The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
on feminist issues (1969-1988), 'Letters from a faint-hearted feminist' and for her autobiography Eating Children (1993). She succeeded Mary Stott
Mary Stott
Mary Stott was a British feminist and journalist. Stott was a journalist and columnist on the "Women's Page" of The Guardian....
as a principal columnist on The Guardian's Women's Page.
Her light style and left-leaning politics were sometimes caricatured ("Jill Twaddle") as modish, but she captured the spirit of moderate feminism in the late 1970s/1980s. In November 2005 she was one of only five women included in the Press Gazette's 40-strong gallery of most influential British journalists.
She was married three times—to the Hungarian Count Cziraky, to Bob d'Ancona, and finally to journalist Alan Brien
Alan Brien
Alan Brien was a British journalist best known for his novel Lenin. This took the form of a fictional diary charting Lenin's life from the death of his father to shortly before his own demise in 1924....
, her partner until her death from motor neurone disease
Motor neurone disease
The motor neurone diseases are a group of neurological disorders that selectively affect motor neurones, the cells that control voluntary muscle activity including speaking, walking, breathing, swallowing and general movement of the body. They are generally progressive in nature, and can cause...
in 1993.
She is commemorated in a group portrait at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG6247) with fellow Guardian Women's Page contributors Mary Stott
Mary Stott
Mary Stott was a British feminist and journalist. Stott was a journalist and columnist on the "Women's Page" of The Guardian....
, Polly Toynbee
Polly Toynbee
Polly Toynbee is a British journalist and writer, and has been a columnist for The Guardian newspaper since 1998. She is a social democrat and broadly supports the Labour Party, while urging it in many areas to be more left-wing...
, Posy Simmonds
Posy Simmonds
Rosemary Elizabeth "Posy" Simmonds MBE is a British newspaper cartoonist and writer and illustrator of children's books. She is best known for her long association with The Guardian, for which she has drawn the cartoons Gemma Bovery and Tamara Drewe , both later published as books...
and Liz Forgan
Liz Forgan
Dame Elizabeth "Liz" Anne Lucy Forgan, DBE is an English journalist and executive for radio and television.-Early life:Forgan was educated at the independent Benenden School in Kent, a girls's boarding school, and at St Hugh's College, Oxford, then an all-female college.She initially worked on...
.
Quotes
- "You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa, just as well without, and a mild interest in hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading DAS KAPITAL and agreeing with every word."
- "Most violence, most crime . . . is not committed by human beings in general. It is committed by men."
External links
- http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/essays/tweedie.htm
- http://thinkexist.com/quotes/jill_tweedie/
- http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=1860645895
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/talent/t/tweedie_jill.shtml