Kate Levey
@brophylevey.bsky.social
Daughter of writer and activist Brigid Brophy (1929-1995)
Bet you had a grand old time!
August 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Bet you had a grand old time!
Oh what a lovely way of seeing them!
August 30, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Oh what a lovely way of seeing them!
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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
heritage.humanists.uk/article/a-hu...
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.
heritage.humanists.uk
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.
Reposted by Kate Levey
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."
Sounds horrid, Jacqui. Sending good wishes.
July 13, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Sounds horrid, Jacqui. Sending good wishes.
Ooohh, thank you for alerting me! (I am not very alert at present)
July 11, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Ooohh, thank you for alerting me! (I am not very alert at present)