Writer and activist Brigid Brophy (1929-1995) was my mother. Her achievements were many and she deserves more recognition. See also @brophylevey.bsky.social
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Like any human with an affinity for levitation, gender-mazes, and hagiography, I have been saving myself for Brigid Brophy’s IN TRANSIT all day.
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November’s Dalkey Archive Essentials Subscription Pick is… HACKENFELLER’S APE by Brigid Brophy!
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Ignore the stern photo! Brigid Brophy's In Transit revels in linguistic license and gender gyration! New USA edition @Dalkey_Archive
Brigid Brophy's prizewinning novel, Hackenfeller's Ape, reissued in USA by @Dalkey_Archive. Yay!
Kate Levey retweeted
Just finished it. You captured why Brophy's wordplay still feels so alive. Now my rescue cat has to watch me rave about In Transit all week! Brava!
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This week on the Essentials Blog, @katpburke’s new introduction IN TRANSIT by Brigid Brophy!
Read it here: deepvellum.org/dalkey-archiv…
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“Brophy’s novel is a riotous sendup of gender, gender expression, social conventions of all sorts—and, as such, is as relevant today as when it first appeared. A timely reprint of a postmodern masterpiece.” —Starred review, Kirkus
Kate Levey retweeted
Take a closer look at these painted pearls
Up close, they’re just paint. Yet we see pearls
In John Singer Sargent’s Portrait of Mrs. Asher B. Wertheimer (c. 1898), he conceals one of his simplest yet most convincing tricks: the strand of pearls is rendered with just a few repeated brushstrokes. Zoom in, and the illusion disappears completely.
Kate Levey retweeted
#OTD in 1892, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Britain's longest-serving Poet Laureate, died age 83. He reportedly died with a copy of Cymbeline, his favourite Shakespeare play, beside him, as moonlight streamed through the window.
