Stephanie Theobald

Stephanie Theobald (born 29 August 1966) is a British novelist and journalist, author of Biche and three other novels. The Times described her as “One of London’s most celebrated literary lesbians.” She was dubbed a “notorious lesbian author” by the Daily Mail in 2007. In a Varsity 2011 interview with Theobald the paper described her as “No ordinary female writer.” She has been the subject of controversy - punk designer Vivienne Westwood is a vociferous anti-fan of Theobald’s work. At a London society party in 2009 she approached her to announce that she ‘hated’ Theobald’s novels adding that A Partial Indulgence was “Like vomit coming at you off the page.”

Theobald was born in Ipswich, Suffolk in 1966. She was educated at Tremough Convent, Cornwall, (now home to Falmouth University) Penryn from 1971 until 1983 then Plume School Maldon from 1983 to 1985. She attended Jesus College, Cambridge from 1985 to 1989 reading the Modern and Medieval languages tripos. Theobald’s grandfather, Bertram Jesse Theobald, a tool turner, founded a fish and chip business in 1943 in Spring Road, Ipswich after he escaped France in one of the Dunkirk small boats and was seconded out of the army to make weapons. Theobald has described how Winston Churchill had announced that fish and chips would not rationed and Bertram’s wife, Iris believed there would be money to make from the business. When Theobald’s father, Roy Theobald, came out of National Service in Malaysia in 1960 he joined the family business which now included four shops in the Ipswich area. In 1969, Roy bought a fish and chip business in Arwenack Street in Falmouth, Cornwall and the family--his wife Veronica and their three children, Christopher (born 1965) and twins Stephanie and Nicholas--moved there.

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