Brigid brophy biography
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Gary Francione, Kate Levey, Richard Canning and Gerri Kimber chaired by 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, essayist, 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 animal rights. She is particularly known for igniting the debate about animal rights.
Francione, a world- leading authority on animal rights and the first academic to teach animal rights theory in an American law school, says Brophy was ahead of her time on animal rights and deserves to be better known. Her thinkin
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Brigid Brophy
English author, literary critic and polemicist (1929–1995)
Brigid Brophy | |
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| 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 djur 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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Obituary: Brigid Brophy
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