Brophy, Brigid

Brophy, Brigid

▪ British writer
in full  Brigid Antonia Brophy  
born June 12, 1929, London, Eng.
died Aug. 7, 1995, London

      English writer whose satiric, witty novels explore the psychology of sex. She also wrote plays and nonfiction that reflect her interests in psychoanalysis, art, opera, and sexual liberation.

      The daughter of the novelist John Brophy, she began writing at an early age. Her first novel, Hackenfeller's Ape, was published in 1953. With her husband, the art historian Michael Levey, and the author and literary critic Charles Osborne, Brophy wrote the controversial Fifty Works of English and American Literature We Could Do Without (1967), which attacked many eminent literary figures and criticized such works as Hamlet and Huckleberry Finn. Her other nonfiction includes critical portraits—such as Mozart the Dramatist (1964) and Black and White: A Portrait of Aubrey Beardsley (1968)—and a well-received collection of selected journalism, Don't Never Forget (1966).

      The two great influences on Brophy's work were Sigmund Freud and George Bernard Shaw, whom she called the “two mainstays of the 20th century.” Her nonfiction treatise Black Ship to Hell (1962), which examines human destructive and self-destructive instincts, owes much to her study of psychoanalysis. Flesh (1962), In Transit (1969), Pussy Owl: Superbeast (1976), Palace Without Chairs (1978), and other novels portray the subtleties of modern relationships. Later nonfiction works include The Prince and the Wild Geese (1983), Baroque ‘n' Roll and Other Essays (1987), and Reads (1989).

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