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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 Novelists since 1960, S. J. Newman described her as "one of the oddest, most brilliant, and most enduring of the 1960s symptoms." She was a feminist and pacifist who expressed controversial opinions on marriage, the Vietnam War, animal rights, religious education in schools, sex (she was openly bisexual [1]), and pornography.

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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 Novelists since 1960, S. J. Newman described her as "one of the oddest, most brilliant, and most enduring of the 1960s symptoms." She was a feminist and pacifist who expressed controversial opinions on marriage, the Vietnam War, animal rights, religious education in schools, sex (she was openly bisexual [1]), and pornography.
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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 Novelists since 1960, S. J. Newman described her as "one of the oddest, most brilliant, and most enduring of the 1960s symptoms." She was a feminist and pacifist who expressed controversial opinions on marriage, the Vietnam War, animal rights, religious education in schools, sex (she was openly bisexual [1]), and pornography. In response to her outspokenness, Brophy was labeled many things, including "one of our leading literary shrews" by a Times Literary Supplement reviewer. "A lonely, ubiquitous toiler in the weekend graveyards, she has scored some direct hits on massive targets: Kingsley Amis, Henry Miller, Professor Wilson Knight." Brigid Brophy was also a very passionate advocate of animal rights and a promoter of vegetarianism. Brophy was married to art historian Sir Michael Levey. She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1984, which would claim her life at the age of 66 in 1995.
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