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Name: Brigid (Antonia) Brophy
Variant Name: Brigid (Antonia) Brophy, Brigid Antonia Brophy
Birth Date: June 12, 1929
Death Date: August 7, 1995
Nationality: British
Gender: Female

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Biography of Brigid (Antonia) Brophy
6,551 words, approx. 22 pages
Brigid Brophy, who died in 1995 after a long struggle against multiple sclerosis, lived one of the most interesting, emblematic careers among writers of her generation. She was an enfant terrible of the 1960s, a fearless and sometimes reckless...
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Biography of Brigid (Antonia) Brophy
5,718 words, approx. 19 pages
"Professors, psychologists, the frenzied do-gooders and the jangling drop-outs make divergent proclamations," wrote Donald Zec in the Daily Mirror in the autumn of 1968. "But all of them, the swingers and the Simon-pure, are agreed on one devastating...


Quotations
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Brigid Brophy Quotes
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Whenever people say "we mustn't be sentimental", you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, "we must be realistic", they mean they are going to make money out of it. -Brigid...


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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Brigid Brophy Information
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Brigid Antonia Brophy, Lady Levey (born June 12, 1929, in London, England; died August 7, 1995, in Louth, Lincolnshire, England) was an English novelist, essayist, critic, biographer, and dramatist. In the Dictionary of Literary Biography: British...


News and Journals
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The Independent - London
OBITUARY: Brigid Brophy
08/28/1995: 450 words, approx. 2 pages
Brigid Brophy once chided me for complaining of stage fright before a live television appearance in which we were both to defend the rights of animals: "the subject is far too important for stage fright", she said. And she meant it, writes Richard D....
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The Independent - London
Obituary: Brigid Brophy
08/08/1995: 1,779 words, approx. 6 pages
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...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Interview by Brigid Brophy with Leslie Dock
7,285 words, approx. 24 pages
In the following interview conducted on July 17, 1975, Brophy discusses her early career, the influence of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, Ronald Firbank, and Mozart on her works, her position as a feminist, and her association with the Writers' Action Group.
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Critical Essay by Sheryl Stevenson
5,157 words, approx. 17 pages
In the following essay, Stevenson discusses parallels between Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of language and In Transit, focusing on the connections the novel makes between the mutability of language, conceptions of gender, modernist fiction, and individual identities.
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Critical Essay by Patricia Juliana Smith
3,564 words, approx. 12 pages
In the following essay, Smith examines the latent homosexuality and postponed heterosexuality in The King of a Rainy Country, relating these themes to various narrative plot conventions that structure Brophy's novel.
 


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