Kate Levey
@brophylevey.bsky.social
Daughter of writer and activist Brigid Brophy (1929-1995)
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Kate Levey
@brophylevey.bsky.social
· Sep 17
Brigid Brophy's *The Snow Ball* has just been published in German!
Gloriously red as the light begins to subside!
November 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Gloriously red as the light begins to subside!
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Michael Field in Context (Cambridge University Press) is out today! I'm so excited that this volume is finally out in the world. It features 35 chapters on so many different aspects of Michael Field's lives and work. Find out more/order for your library here: www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
September 25, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Michael Field in Context (Cambridge University Press) is out today! I'm so excited that this volume is finally out in the world. It features 35 chapters on so many different aspects of Michael Field's lives and work. Find out more/order for your library here: www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
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My article on 'Brigid Brophy's Ethical Aestheticism: Form, Empathy, Reciprocity' is now out in the latest issue of Genre, in a special issue on Aestheticism Now! I'm looking forward to reading all the other articles. You can find the issue here: read.dukeupress.edu/genre/issue/...
Volume 58 Issue 2 | Genre | Duke University Press
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October 31, 2025 at 11:15 AM
My article on 'Brigid Brophy's Ethical Aestheticism: Form, Empathy, Reciprocity' is now out in the latest issue of Genre, in a special issue on Aestheticism Now! I'm looking forward to reading all the other articles. You can find the issue here: read.dukeupress.edu/genre/issue/...
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“He saw sitting on a branch, a medium sized brown feathered animal with the tail of a tabby cat.” ~ Pussy Owl (1976), Brigid Brophy.
#BookWormSat #Jackanory #BBC
[🎨Hilary Hayton]
#BookWormSat #Jackanory #BBC
[🎨Hilary Hayton]
October 4, 2025 at 10:16 AM
“He saw sitting on a branch, a medium sized brown feathered animal with the tail of a tabby cat.” ~ Pussy Owl (1976), Brigid Brophy.
#BookWormSat #Jackanory #BBC
[🎨Hilary Hayton]
#BookWormSat #Jackanory #BBC
[🎨Hilary Hayton]
Brigid Brophy's *The Snow Ball* has just been published in German!
September 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Brigid Brophy's *The Snow Ball* has just been published in German!
Brigid Brophy on the back of Scarlett Thomas' The Sleepwalkers.
September 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Brigid Brophy on the back of Scarlett Thomas' The Sleepwalkers.
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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)
New on the blog this week, I've written about some of my favourite SPINSTERS in literature for @pear-jelly.bsky.social’s #SpinsterSeptember, which starts today.
Featuring books by Barbara Pym, Ann Schlee, Russell Hoban, Vivian Gornick and more! #BookSky 💙📚
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Featuring books by Barbara Pym, Ann Schlee, Russell Hoban, Vivian Gornick and more! #BookSky 💙📚
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Spinsters in literature – some recommendations for #SpinsterSeptember
If you follow Nora (Pear Jelly) on Bluesky or Instagram, you’ll know that she’s been gearing up to host #SpinsterSeptember, a brilliant reading event showcasing books featuring spinsters, from the …
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September 1, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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)
Windfall greengages masquerading as marzipan fruits or clay marbles.
August 30, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Windfall greengages masquerading as marzipan fruits or clay marbles.
Rare Clifden Nonpareil? It turned up this p.m.
August 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Rare Clifden Nonpareil? It turned up this p.m.
It's a pretty-patterny sort of afternoon.
August 25, 2025 at 1:03 PM
It's a pretty-patterny sort of afternoon.
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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
August 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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
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Lurid borlotti beans and Brigid Brophy
August 18, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Lurid borlotti beans and Brigid Brophy
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'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.
heritage.humanists.uk/brigid-brophy/
heritage.humanists.uk/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 […]
heritage.humanists.uk
August 8, 2025 at 10:07 AM
'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.
heritage.humanists.uk/brigid-brophy/
heritage.humanists.uk/brigid-brophy/
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'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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heritage.humanists.uk/article/a-hu...
Humanist Heritage: A Humanist Childhood
Kate Levey, daughter of writer, activist, vegan, and humanist Brigid Brophy, remembers an imaginative, affectionate, and colourful upbringing.
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August 8, 2025 at 10:11 AM
'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
heritage.humanists.uk/article/a-hu...
heritage.humanists.uk/article/a-hu...
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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.
July 12, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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.
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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."
*"Outing" in this sense meaning "as a Soviet spy."
July 14, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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."
*"Outing" in this sense meaning "as a Soviet spy."
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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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Featuring books by Rosamond Lehmann, Brigid Brophy, Margaret Drabble, Hisham Matar and more! #BookSky #London #Books #BookReview 💙📚
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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…
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July 11, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/07/10/l...
Featuring books by Rosamond Lehmann, Brigid Brophy, Margaret Drabble, Hisham Matar and more! #BookSky #London #Books #BookReview 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/07/10/l...
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From the Archive: A review of The Prince and the Wild Geese by Brigid Brophy, first published in the TLS of June 10, 1983
Flower, with caterpillars
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July 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
From the Archive: A review of The Prince and the Wild Geese by Brigid Brophy, first published in the TLS of June 10, 1983
Hoooooo! Brigid Brophy alert! Thank you @thetls.bsky.social
An age of misgovernment; the novel of ideas; Chaucer’s ambitions for English; reconsidering Brigid Brophy; Samuel Beckett’s resourcefulness – and much more.
This week’s TLS is out now: www.the-tls.com/issues/curr...
This week’s TLS is out now: www.the-tls.com/issues/curr...
July 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Hoooooo! Brigid Brophy alert! Thank you @thetls.bsky.social
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Can’t help thinking the TLS is missing a trick here.
July 3, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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.
July 3, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Not to be missed: two reissued Brigid Brophy novels discussed in this week's TLS @thetls.bsk.social.
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'He did not know what the Professor was urging him to reach; but he had some feeling that his reward would be to share with the Professor that kingdom outside the cage, which he only mistily saw, but where, it appeared to him, the Professor moved free and fluent.'
June 28, 2025 at 9:05 AM
'He did not know what the Professor was urging him to reach; but he had some feeling that his reward would be to share with the Professor that kingdom outside the cage, which he only mistily saw, but where, it appeared to him, the Professor moved free and fluent.'
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Morning reading. Brigid Brophy.
June 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Morning reading. Brigid Brophy.
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Another day, another Faber Editions success. ‘Hackenfeller’s Ape’ is both a damning indictment of humankind’s wilful disregard for the planet, and also a rollickingly enjoyable space race ape caper.
‘The visionary exodus of the animals: it would be fantastic; it would be anarchical.’
‘The visionary exodus of the animals: it would be fantastic; it would be anarchical.’
June 20, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Another day, another Faber Editions success. ‘Hackenfeller’s Ape’ is both a damning indictment of humankind’s wilful disregard for the planet, and also a rollickingly enjoyable space race ape caper.
‘The visionary exodus of the animals: it would be fantastic; it would be anarchical.’
‘The visionary exodus of the animals: it would be fantastic; it would be anarchical.’
