'Tis the season... for fans of Brigid Brophy. Here's the first edition of The Snow Ball, 1964, with BB's inscription to her parents.

this 1969 book is either going to be an extremely prescient, groundbreaking work of fiction or an absolute disaster. no way of telling, really.

Gloriously red as the light begins to subside!

Michael Field in Context (Cambridge University Press) is out today! I'm so excited that this volume is finally out in the world. It features 35 chapters on so many different aspects of Michael Field's lives and work. Find out more/order for your library here: www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

My article on 'Brigid Brophy's Ethical Aestheticism: Form, Empathy, Reciprocity' is now out in the latest issue of Genre, in a special issue on Aestheticism Now! I'm looking forward to reading all the other articles. You can find the issue here: read.dukeupress.edu/genre/issue/...

“He saw sitting on a branch, a medium sized brown feathered animal with the tail of a tabby cat.” ~ Pussy Owl (1976), Brigid Brophy. #BookWormSat #Jackanory #BBC [🎨Hilary Hayton]

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

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

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)

Windfall greengages masquerading as marzipan fruits or clay marbles.

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

It's a pretty-patterny sort of afternoon.

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

Lurid borlotti beans and Brigid Brophy

'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. heritage.humanists.uk/brigid-brophy/

'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...

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.

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."

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 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/07/10/l...

From the Archive: A review of The Prince and the Wild Geese by Brigid Brophy, first published in the TLS of June 10, 1983

Hoooooo! Brigid Brophy alert! Thank you @thetls.bsky.social

Can’t help thinking the TLS is missing a trick here.

Not to be missed: two reissued Brigid Brophy novels discussed in this week's TLS @thetls.bsk.social.

'He did not know what the Professor was urging him to reach; but he had some feeling that his reward would be to share with the Professor that kingdom outside the cage, which he only mistily saw, but where, it appeared to him, the Professor moved free and fluent.'

Morning reading. Brigid Brophy.

Another day, another Faber Editions success. ‘Hackenfeller’s Ape’ is both a damning indictment of humankind’s wilful disregard for the planet, and also a rollickingly enjoyable space race ape caper. ‘The visionary exodus of the animals: it would be fantastic; it would be anarchical.’

Dylan being cool.

In Transit by Brigid Brophy is a post-modernist classic decades ahead of its time, now back in shops thanks to Lurid Editions.

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals. - Brigid Brophy

Spotty dotty pointillist lawn.

Great fun podcast here: www.lostladiesoflit.com/podcast/248-...

Brigid Brophy - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

On Brigid Brophy's birthday: The Humanist Society by John Hedgecoe bromide print, 1966 humanism.org.uk Kingsley Martin, Leo Abse, Ludovic Kennedy, Edward Francis Williams, Alfred Jules Ayer, Brigid Brophy

Brigid Brophy is in another group portrait at the National Portrait Gallery in London 'Out' Group by Patrick Lichfield, July 1967 I don't know how this group was put together; some of the sitters look more "out" than others, & Brophy least of all. Identified here: npg.org.uk/collections/...

My favourite Brigid Brophy book: Mozart the Dramatist: The Value of His Operas to Him, to His Age and to Us "To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century."

Remembering Brigid Brophy on her birthday 🎂 📷 J. S. Lewinski, 1968 "Brigid Brophy well understood that anyone with a claim to a unique, wide-ranging and non-frivolous position in British culture is a dangerous dissident." - Kate Levey @brophylevey.bsky.social

Classily bisexual English writer Brigid Brophy, author of “Flesh”, “The Snow Ball” and “The Finishing Touch” and long-term lover of #IrisMurdoch, was BOTD in 1929. #brigidbrophy #bornonthisday #supergays

On this day in 1929 Brigid Brophy was born. A quarter of a century later she married on her birthday, making June 12th a dual celebration in our household. #swish

New on the blog today, I've written about LIFE AMONG THE SAVAGES by Shirley Jackson. This wry, self-deprecating memoir of family life shows a different side to Jackson from her fiction, although there are hints of the writer we know lurking beneath... 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/06/08/l...

My daughter's cat demonstrates how to wear white and pink this season.

New on the blog today, I've written about some of my favourite books in the excellent Faber Editions series. Featuring titles by Jean Stafford, Emeric Pressburger, Gwendolyn Brooks, Brigid Brophy & more! #BookSky 💙📚 @faberbooks.bsky.social jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/05/29/m...

Nice evening in spite of the drought.

Today on the blog, my first time reading Brigid Brophy - Novella a Day in May 2025: No.17 madamebibilophilerecommends.co.uk/2025/05/17/n...

I picked three slightly standoffish tulips:

Happy publication day to In Transit, Brigid Brophy's heroi-cyclic masterpiece! Huge thanks to @brophylevey.bsky.social for believing in the project to publish a new edition of the novel, and for writing a brilliant foreword. We're so proud to be publishing this mind/sex bending novel. #booksky

Yay! Today! Brigid Brophy!

Our tulips are all but finished now- but still pretty in the sun.

Just leaving this here, as they say. #brigidbrophy #intransit #booksky

Went to the trouble of growing a tulip that looks artificial! Pah!

Great to spot Brigid Brophy's The Snow Ball @faberbooks just squeaking into this photo!