- Jill Tweedie
Jill Sheila Tweedie (
22 May 1936 , some sources indicate 1934 [ [http://www.tweedie.org/tweedie.htm Tweedie Genealogy Archive: History: Better Known Tweedies ] ] -12 November 1993 ) was an influential feminist, writer and broadcaster. 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 succeededMary 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
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 frommotor 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 andLiz Forgan .Trivia
*She has been mistaken (even by "
The Guardian ") with the similarly-namedJill Craigie .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"-- jill tweedie--
*In November 2005 she was one of only five (5) women included in the "Press Gazette's" 40-strong gallery of most influential British journalists.
References
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*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
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