She was educated at the independent
Croydon High School in
Croydon, South London. She wrote a column in
The Guardian on feminist issues (1969–1988), "Letters from a faint-hearted feminist", and an autobiography entitled
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 captured the spirit of British feminism in the 1970s and 1980s. In November 2005 she was one of only five women included in the ''
Press Gazette's'' 40-strong gallery of most influential British journalists. She was married three times, to the Hungarian Count Bela Cziraky, to Bob d'Ancona, and lastly, to journalist
Alan Brien, her partner until her death from
motor neurone disease in 1993. She is commemorated in a group portrait at the
National Portrait Gallery with fellow
Guardian Women's Page contributors
Mary Stott,
Polly Toynbee,
Posy Simmonds and
Liz Forgan. In October 2024,
Polly Toynbee claimed in an
op-ed for
The Guardian in support of
assisted suicide that Tweedie had taken her own life, rather than having died from motor neurone disease, as previously thought. ==References==