In 1947 she went on a scholarship to Oxford University (St Hugh's College), but left in 1948 without a degree. She then attended St Paul's Girls' School in London. During World War II she attended The Abbey School, Reading, between May 1941 and July 1943, and other schools.
She was the only child of the novelist John Brophy and Charis Brophy ( née Grundy), who was a teacher. most loyal of friends reverer of Jane Austen lover of Italy Mozart adorer … smoker of cigarettes in a chic holder and painter of her fingernails purple mother, grandmother, wife feminist lover of men and women Brigid Brophy was above all an intellectual, which British (although she was Irish) authors aren’t supposed to be.Brigid Antonia Brophy was born on 12 June 1929, in Ealing in west London. “Atheist, vegetarian, socialist novelist and short-story writer humanist biographer playwright. Though serious in intent, Prancing Novelist is not only a monument to Firbank, but is also a delightful showcase for Brophy's own uproarious prose, not to mention her genius for telling good stories. In these pages–by turns instructive, mischievous, and even gossipy–Brigid Brophy seeks nothing less than a vindication of the eternal liveliness of fiction itself against the persistent rumors that it is dying or dead.
One of the most penetrating and sympathetic explorations ever undertaken by one writer into the mind of another, Prancing Novelist is far more than a simple tribute or work of research.
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