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Brophy, Brigid (Antonia Susan)
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| Writer and critic, born in London, UK. She studied at Oxford, and married Sir Michael Levey in 1954. Her novels included Hackenfeller's Ape (1953), Flesh (1962), In Transit (1970), and Palace Without Chairs (1978). Among her non-fiction titles are Black Ship to Hell (1962) and Black and White: a Portrait of Aubrey Beardsley (1968), and she co-wrote the controversial Fifty Works of English and American Literature We Could Do Without (1967, with Michael Levey and Charles Osborne). She was vice-president of the Anti-Vivisection League of Great Britain, and active in the Public Lending Right campaign in the UK. |
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