Brigid brophy biography

Brigid Antonia Brophy, writer: born 12 June 1929; co- organiser, Writers' Action Group for Public Lending Right 1972-82; married 1954 Michael Levey (Kt 1981; one daughter); died Louth, Lincolnshire 7 August 1995.

"Whatever became of Brigid Brophy?" I was her literary agent, and people increasingly asked me that question in the Eighties. They had ceased by the Nineties.

The terrible answer was that on the last day of 1979 she had to come to terms with living with multiple sclerosis. She wrote about the experience, with almost unbearable lucidity and detail, in her coruscating collection of essays Baroque 'n' Roll (1987). This debilitating, life-sapping illness kept her more or less housebound thereafter, administered to by professional paid help, her friend the novelist Shena Mackay and, especially, by her remarkable husband, Sir Michael Levey, who took early retirement in 1987 as Director of the National Gallery to look after her.

For a decade, life must

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Brigid Brophy

English author, literary critic and polemicist (1929–1995)

Brigid Brophy
Born	Brigid Antonia Brophy (1929-06-12)12 June 1929 Ealing, England
Died	7 August 1995(1995-08-07) (aged 66) Louth, Lincolnshire, England
Occupation	Author and literary critic
Genre	Short stories, novels, plays, non-fiction studies, literary criticism.
Notable works	Hackenfeller's Ape (1953); Flesh (1962); The Snow Ball (1964)
Spouse	Michael Levey
Parents	John Brophy (father)

Brigid Antonia Brophy (married name Brigid Levey, later Lady Levey; 12 June 1929 – 7 August 1995), was an English author, literary critic and polemicist. She was an influential campaigner who agitated for many types of social reform, including homosexual parity, vegetarianism, humanism, and animal rights. Brophy appeared frequently on television and in the newspapers of the 1960s and 1970s, making her prominent both in literary circles and on the wi

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Gary Francione, Kate Levey, Richard Canning and Gerri Kimber chaired bygd Michael Caines

Remembering Brigid Brophy: Visionary Writer, Feminist and Animal rights Campaigner

Wednesday, 20 March 2024

4:00pm

1 hour

Bodleian: Divinity School

£7 - £13.50

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Law and philosophy professor Gary Francione, Brigid Brophy experts Professor Richard Canning and Dr Gerri Kimber and Brophy’s daughter Kate Levey discuss the life and work of the novelist, författare av essäer, feminist, and animal rights campaigner Brigid Brophy.

Brophy was an Anglo-Irish writer and polemicist who campaigned on many fronts including vegetarianism, humanism, feminism, gay rights and djur rights. She is particularly known for igniting the debate about animal rights.

Francione, a world- leading authority on djur rights and the first academic to teach djur rights theory in an American lag school, says Brophy was ahead of her time on djur rights and deserves to be better known. Her thinkin