Kate Levey

Paperback cover for Pussy Owl by Brigid Brophy. Front shows an image of the Pussy Owl. The back cover has a portrait of actor James Cossins.

“He saw sitting on a branch, a medium sized brown feathered animal with the tail of a tabby cat.” ~ Pussy Owl (1976), Brigid Brophy.
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Brigid Brophy's *The Snow Ball* has just been published in German!

Brigid Brophy on the back of Scarlett Thomas' The Sleepwalkers.

Flawless starter pack for an exploration of the fertile land of spinster-lit. I'd also add LOLLY WILLOWES by Sylvia Townsend Warner (along with every other word she wrote)

Endorsed.

Bet you had a grand old time!

Oh what a lovely way of seeing them!

Windfall greengages masquerading as marzipan fruits or clay marbles.

Rare Clifden Nonpareil? It turned up this p.m.

It's a pretty-patterny sort of afternoon.

48 years ago today, I was attending the Animals’ Rights conference at Trinity College, Cambridge, organised by the RSPCA. My first opportunity to hear Richard Ryder, Brigid Brophy, Clive Hollands, John Bryant, Andrew Linzey, and many others speak out for animals. kimstallwood.substack.com

In Transit meets a borlotti bean harvest!

Lurid borlotti beans and Brigid Brophy

Humanist Heritage: Brigid Brophy (1929-1995) We are (of all the synonyms I most prefer to ‘humanist’) freethinkers. We are deprived of nothing. We have lost […]

'We are (of all the synonyms I most prefer to ‘humanist’) freethinkers. We are deprived of nothing. We have lost nothing… We are liberated into and given the freedom of the whole kingdom of the imagination.' The inimitable Brigid Brophy died #onthisday 1995.

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Humanist Heritage: A Humanist Childhood Kate Levey, daughter of writer, activist, vegan, and humanist Brigid Brophy, remembers an imaginative, affectionate, and colourful upbringing.

'Both my parents were humanists, they determined that my upbringing should be solidly rational. That bedrock gave me stability and my mother steered me from the kind of emotional jumble she had grown up with.' Kate Levey remembers her mother #HumanistHeritage

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James Salter. I haven’t read much of him but he’s great. Brigid Brophy is a recent discovery for me but I’d defy A.I. to produce anything like The Snow Ball.

I picked up the Brigid Brophy too. Recently read her book The Finishing Touch, which is a novel about a sapphic headmistress at a finishing school. Protagonist is modeled on a pre-outing* Anthony Blunt, who worked with Brophy's husband!

*"Outing" in this sense meaning "as a Soviet spy."

Sounds horrid, Jacqui. Sending good wishes.

Thank you!

London Novels – ten favourites from my shelves Back in May, Faber and Faber reissued Alexander Baron’s brilliant novel The Lowlife, the entertaining, picaresque story of an amiable Jewish charmer trying to get by on his wits in seedy post-war L…

New on the blog this week, I've written about some of my favourite novels set in London.

Featuring books by Rosamond Lehmann, Brigid Brophy, Margaret Drabble, Hisham Matar and more! #BookSky #London #Books #BookReview 💙📚

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Ooohh, thank you for alerting me! (I am not very alert at present)

Flower, with caterpillars

From the Archive: A review of The Prince and the Wild Geese by Brigid Brophy, first published in the TLS of June 10, 1983

(So your UK algorithms are all good!)

Ha! Well I've yet to see the article, so *whatdoIknow*? (KoaRC is a USA recent reissue)

I think the @thetls.bsky.social article discusses The King of a Rainy Country and In Transit.

I know!

It's so strange to think of BB buttoned up!

I only fairly recently saw it for the first time - is there such a thing as a 'period corker'?

Hoooooo! Brigid Brophy alert! Thank you @thetls.bsky.social

Can’t help thinking the TLS is missing a trick here.

Not to be missed: two reissued Brigid Brophy novels discussed in this week's TLS @thetls.bsk.social.