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I refuse to consign the whole male s*x to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.
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Birth: | 12th June, 1929 |
Death: | 7th August, 1995 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Novelist |
Brigid Brophy was born in Ealing in west London. She was a British novelist, critic and campaigner for social reforms, including the rights of authors and animal rights. Among her novels was Hackenfeller's Ape; among her critical studies were Mozart the Dramatist and Prancing Novelist: A Defence of Fiction ... In Praise Of Ronald Firbank. In the Dictionary of Literary Biography: British Novelists since 1960, S. J. Newman described her as "one of the oddest, most brilliant, and most enduring of 1960s symptoms." She was a campaigner for animal rights and vegetarianism.
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