Flesh (1962) portrayed the erotic tutelage of an inexperienced husband by his wife. The King of a Rainy Country (1956) depicted a set of Bohemians in post-war London and Venice. Hackenfeller’s Ape (1953) concerned the relationship between an ape at London Zoo and a Professor observing the animal’s mating rituals. Her fiction career began with the short-story volume The Crown Princess (1953), followed by seven novels, each entirely unlike its predecessors. The 600-page monograph Prancing Novelist: A Defence of Fiction in the Form of a Critical Biography in Praise of Ronald Firbank (1973) may have created a genre. In 2015, I and the ECW team at the University of Northampton ran a two-day international conference to celebrate all aspects of Brigid Brophy’s literary career, as well as her leading contributions to animal rights, vegetarianism, anti-vivisectionism, humanism, feminism and her advocacy of the Public Lending Right.īrophy (1929-1995) wrote books of all kinds in all genres. Co-Editors: Professor Richard Canning and Visiting Professor Gerri Kimber, University of Northampton, England
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