Jill Tweedie (1936–1993) The Experience LINKS No links found. BIOGRAPHY Jill Tweedie (1936–1993)  A reviewer of Jill Tweedie's autobiography, Eating Children: Young Dreams and Early Nightmares (1993), reveals that she was born into an economically comfortable family of "impeccable rectitude," presided over by her father, "a Scottish patriarch pathologically incapable of affection." Tweedie was encouraged to become "feminine" and marriageable; she was given ballet lessons and sent to a Swiss finishing school, while her brother, and only sibling, was given an academic education. Her inevitable rebellion when she was eighteen years old precipitated a disastrous marriage (the first of three) to a jealous and abusive Hungarian count. After an acrimonious separation, she took her two children to a hippie commune in Wales where she discovered that, even there, women were burdened with "women's work" while the men, generally, did no work at all. She moved to London and lived in poverty while she struggled to support her household by writing—the only skill she commanded. Ultimately, she became the Guardian's regular columnist on feminist issues. She wrote several volumes on feminist themes, among them, Letters from a Faint-hearted Feminist (1982). Shortly before her death, when asked about the changes feminism had generated, she replied: "Assumptions about women are what has changed most radically. And a woman's whole psychic energy isn't wrapped up in men or nurturing the male ego. Young women don't appreciate that vast liberation."