Debbie Taylor

Dec 10, 2024 | mslexia.co.uk | Edward Robertson |Debbie Taylor

I’m going to talk about creativity. Women’s creativity, to be more specific. Women writers’ creativity, to be even more specific. And I’m going to use the wise and wondrous Fay Weldon as a case study. I grew up reading Fay Weldon. Long before I became a writer myself, I was being challenged and shocked and entertained by her novels, pouncing on each new one as soon as it came out in paperback. The early ones are still on my bookshelf in a long, brittle, yellowing row.

Nov 30, 2023 | thebookseller.com | Debbie Taylor

In the launch edition of Mslexia in 1999, I imagined an alien arriving on Earth to study gender differences in the strange naked apes that ruled the planet. And I described its astonishment on discovering that the females, who were so much more adept at language skills from birth, and so much more passionate about reading and writing as they grew up, should lag so far behind the males when it came literary achievement. What would it think now, I wonder?

Mar 30, 2023 | mslexia.co.uk | Debbie Taylor

Jan 17, 2023 | mslexia.co.uk | Debbie Taylor

Feb 10, 2022 | mslexia.co.uk | Debbie Taylor