Brigid Brophy

**Brigid Antonia Brophy, Lady Levey** (**Bridžit Brofi**, 12. jun, 1929, u Londonu &ndash; 7. avgust, 1995, u Louthu) bila je engleska spisateljica, esejistkinja, kritičarka, biografkinja i dramaturškinja. U "Rečniku književnih biografija: Britanski romanopisci od 1960", S. J. Newman je opisuje kao "jedan od najčudnijih, najbriljantnijih i najistrajnijih simptoma 1960-ih."

Bila je feministkinja i pacifistkinja, koja je često izražavala kontroverzne stavove prema braku, Vijetnamskom ratu, religijskom obrazovanju u školama, seksu (ona je bila otvoreno biseksualna) i o pornografiji. Bila je glasna u kampanjama za prava životinja i zagovarala je vegetarijanstvo. Psiholog Richard D. Ryder je ocenio da je njen članak iz *Sunday Times*-a, iz 1965. godine označio početak pokreta za prava životanja u Engleskoj.

Brophy je bila udata za istoričara umetnosti, Sir Michael Levey. Godine 1984. dijagnostifikovana joj je multipla skleroza, a 11 godina kasnije je izvršila samoubistvo.

## Radovi
### Fikcija
* *The Crown Princess and Other Stories*, Viking (New York, NY), 1953. 
* *Hackenfeller's Ape*, Hart-Davis (London), 1953, Random House (New York, NY), 1954, Virago Press (London), 1991. 
* *The King of a Rainy Country*, Secker & Warburg (London), 1956, Knopf (New York, NY), 1957, reprinted with afterword, Virago Press, 1990. 
* *Flesh*, Secker & Warburg, 1962, World (Cleveland, OH), 1963. 
* *The Finishing Touch* (also see below), Secker & Warburg, 1963, revised edition, GMP (London), 1987. 
* *The Snow Ball* (also see below), Secker & Warburg, 1964. 
* *The Finishing Touch [and] The Snow Ball*, World, 1964. 
* *The Burglar* (play; first produced in London at Vaudeville Theatre, February 22, 1967), Holt (New York, NY), 1968. 
* *In Transit: An Heroicycle Novel*, Macdonald & Co. (London), 1969, Putnam (New York, NY), 1970, Dalkey Archive Press, (Chicago, IL), 2002. 
* *The Adventures of God in His Search for the Black Girl: A Novel and Some Fables*, Macmillan (London), 1973, Little, Brown and Company (Boston), 1974. 
* *Pussy Owl: Superbeast* (for children), illustrated by Hilary Hayton, BBC Publications (London), 1976. 
* *Palace without Chairs: A Baroque Novel*, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1978.

### Ostalo
* *[[Black Ship to Hell]]*, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1962. 
* *[[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]] the Dramatist: A New View of Mozart, His Operas and His Age*, Harcourt, 1964, revised edition, Da Capo (New York, NY), 1990.
* *Don't Never Forget: Collected Views and Reviews*, Cape (London), 1966, Holt, 1967. 
* (With husband, Michael Levey, and Charles Osborne) *Fifty Works of English and American Literature We Could Do Without*, Rapp & Carroll (London), 1967, Stein & Day (New York, NY), 1968. 
* *Religious Education in State Schools*, Fabian Society (London), 1967. 
* *Black and White: A Portrait of [[Aubrey Beardsley]]*, Cape, 1968, Stein & Day, 1969. 
* *The Rights of Animals, Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society* (London), 1969. 
* *The Longford Threat to Freedom*, National Secular Society (London), 1972. 
* *Prancing Novelist: A Defence of Fiction in the Form of a Critical Biography in Praise of [[Ronald Firbank]]*, Barnes & Noble (New York, NY), 1973. 
* *Beardsley and His World*, Harmony Books (New York, NY), 1976. 
* *The Prince and the Wild Geese*, pictures by Gregoire Gagarin, Hamish Hamilton (London), 1982, St. Martin's (New York, NY), 1983. 
* *A Guide to Public Lending Right*, Gower (Hampshire, England), 1983.
* *Baroque 'n' Roll and Other Essays*, David & Charles (North Pomfret, VT), 1987. 
* *Reads: A Collection of Essays*, Cardinal (London), 1989.

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