His daughter began writing at a precociously early age, mainly poetry and drama, but gave it up when she found that "there was no great market for blank verse dramas on the Middle Ages." Her father was more percipient, and in 1940 he wrote: "I have a daughter, ten years old, who excels me in everything, even in writing." Brophy and her father were very different: "We never agreed what is good art or bad art, yet we were at one in our preoccupation with the problem."
He was chief fiction critic of the Daily Telegraph and, during World War II, edited John O'London's Weekly. His best-known novel, Waterfront (1934), set on the Mersey River in Liverpool, was turned into a film, as were two other novels. Her mother Charis Brophy, a strong feminist, was a teacher, nurse, and prison visitor, and her father John Brophy was a prolific novelist and critic. Hackenfeller's Ape (Hart-Davis, 1953) The Finishing Touch (Secker and Warburg, 1963) Mozart the Dramatist (Harcourt, 1964) Don't Never Forget (Cape, 1966) (with Michael Levey and Charles Osborne) Fifty Works of Literature We Could Do Without (Rapp and Carroll, 1967) Beardsley and His World (Harmony Books, 1976) Baroque 'n' Roll (David and Charles, 1987).īrigid Brophy grew up in a literary household. Awards:Ĭheltenham Literary Festival Prize for first novel (1954) fellow of Royal Society of Literature (1973). Hugh's College, Oxford married Sir Michael Levey (author and former director of the National Gallery, London), 1954 children: one daughter, Katharine.
Paul's Girls' School awarded Jubilee Scholarship and studied classics at St.
Born Brigid Antonia Brophy in London, England, on Jdied in Louth, Lincolnshire, on Augdaughter of John Brophy and Charis Grundy Brophy educated at St. British novelist, critic and playwright, who was one of the most entertaining, acute and witty critics of the 1960s and 1970s.
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