Jill Tweedie

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Jill Sheila Tweedie (22nd May 1936 - 12th 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 succeeded Mary Stott as a principal columnist on The Guardian's Women's Page.

Her light style and left-leaning politics were easily caricatured ('Jill Twaddle'^{[citation needed]}) as modish, but captured the spirit of moderate feminism in the late 1970s and 1980s

She was married three times - to the Hungarian Count Cziraky, to Bob d'Ancona, and finally to journalist Alan Brien, her partner till her early death of Motor Neurone Disease, in 1993.

She is sometimes confused (even by The Guardian) with Jill Craigie.

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.

In November 2005 she was one of only 5 women included in the Press Gazette's 40-strong gallery of most influential British journalists.