Sheila MacLeod
Born (1939-03-23) 23 March 1939
Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
OccupationWriter

Sheila MacLeod (born 23 March 1939) is a Scottish author and feminist.

Biography

Sheila MacLeod was born on 23 March 1939 in the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. MacLeod attended the Wycombe Abbey School in Buckinghamshire, England before completing her degrees in English in Somerville College, Oxford. She got her bachelors in 1961 and her masters in 1993. MacLeod later completed a bachelor's in French from Birkbeck College, University of London in 1996.[1]

MacLeod wrote for a number of publications including The Times Literary Supplement, Vogue, The Observer, and the Evening Standard. She also worked for Clarendon Press. Her novels ranged from science fiction to the non fantastic. MacLeod wrote a BBC television play in 1965 and another play in 1985.[2][3][4]

MacLeod experienced anorexia during her teens and later wrote a book about her experiences based on diaries she kept at the time. It is considered a key feminist text on anorexia nervosa. She married Manfred Mann singer Paul Jones in 1963, but they later divorced. She moved to London with her sons, Matthew and Jacob.[5][6]

Bibliography

Novels

  • The Moving Accident (1968)
  • The Snow-White Soliloquies (1970)
  • Letters From the Portuguese (1971)
  • Xanthe and the Robots (1976)
  • Circuit-Breaker (1977)
  • Axioms (1984)

Teleplays

  • They Put You Where You Are (with Paul Jones, 1965)
  • God Speed Co-operation (1985)

Non-fiction

  • D.H. Lawrence's Men and Women (1985)
  • The Art of Starvation: An Adolescence Observed (1981)

Sources

  1. ↑ "MacLeod, Sheila (1939–)". www.encyclopedia.com. Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages.
  2. ↑ Gifford, Gifford Douglas (31 March 2020). History of Scottish Women's Writing. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-7486-7266-0.
  3. ↑ Inc, Time (14 August 1970). LIFE. Time Inc. {{cite book}}: |last1= has generic name (help)
  4. ↑ "Authors : MacLeod, Sheila : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com.
  5. ↑ Rowbotham, Sheila (23 July 2019). Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixties. Verso Books. ISBN 978-1-78873-481-3.
  6. ↑ Hepworth, Julie (22 April 1999). The Social Construction of Anorexia Nervosa. SAGE. ISBN 978-1-84860-900-6.


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