Brigid Brophy was a British novelist, critic and campaigner for social reforms, including the rights of authors and animal rights.
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 … In Praise Of Ronald Fir bank (1973).
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] 1960’s symptoms.”
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