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Joe McCartney @mccartneyjoe.bsky.social · 9d

“He saw sitting on a branch, a medium sized brown feathered animal with the tail of a tabby cat.” ~ Pussy Owl (1976), Brigid Brophy.
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Paperback cover for Pussy Owl by Brigid Brophy. Front shows an image of the Pussy Owl. The back cover has a portrait of actor James Cossins.

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Kate Levey @brophylevey.bsky.social · 25d

Brigid Brophy's *The Snow Ball* has just been published in German!

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Kate Levey @brophylevey.bsky.social · Sep 1

Brigid Brophy on the back of Scarlett Thomas' The Sleepwalkers.

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · Sep 1

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)

JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · Sep 1

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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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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Kate Levey @brophylevey.bsky.social · Sep 1

Endorsed.

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Kate Levey @brophylevey.bsky.social · Aug 30

Bet you had a grand old time!

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Kate Levey @brophylevey.bsky.social · Aug 30

Oh what a lovely way of seeing them!

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Kate Levey @brophylevey.bsky.social · Aug 30

Windfall greengages masquerading as marzipan fruits or clay marbles.

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Kate Levey @brophylevey.bsky.social · Aug 26

Rare Clifden Nonpareil? It turned up this p.m.

Kate Levey @brophylevey.bsky.social · Aug 25

It's a pretty-patterny sort of afternoon.

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Kim Stallwood @kimstallwood.bsky.social · Aug 18

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 Editions @lurideditions.bsky.social · Aug 18

Lurid borlotti beans and Brigid Brophy

In Transit meets a borlotti bean harvest!

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · Aug 8

'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.

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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 […]

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · Aug 8

'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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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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Stygian Forces @sfawcs.bsky.social · Jul 12

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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Matt Keeley @matt-keeley.bsky.social · Jul 14

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."

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Kate Levey @brophylevey.bsky.social · Jul 13

Sounds horrid, Jacqui. Sending good wishes.

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Kate Levey @brophylevey.bsky.social · Jul 11

Thank you!

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · Jul 11

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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