![]() ![]() She was the only child of the novelist John Brophy and Charis Brophy ( née Grundy), who was a teacher. She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1983.īrigid Antonia Brophy was born on 12 June 1929, in Ealing in west London. Brophy married art historian Michael Levey in 1954. Ryder with having triggered the formation of the animal rights movement in England. ![]() A 1965 Sunday Times article by Brophy is credited by psychologist Richard D. She was a campaigner for animal rights and vegetarianism. Newman described her as "one of the oddest, most brilliant, and most enduring of 1960s symptoms." She was a feminist and pacifist who expressed controversial opinions on marriage, the Vietnam War, religious education in schools, sex, and pornography. In the Dictionary of Literary Biography: British Novelists since 1960, S. Among her novels was Hackenfeller's Ape (1953) among her critical studies were Mozart the Dramatist (1964, revised 1990) and Prancing Novelist: A Defence of Fiction. Brigid Antonia Brophy, Lady Levey (12 June 1929 – 7 August 1995) was a British novelist, critic and campaigner for social reforms, including the rights of authors and animal rights. ![]()
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