Unblenched
Lucie Elven: Homage to Brigid Brophy, 21 March 2024
Hackenfeller’s Ape
by Brigid Brophy.
Faber, 133 pp., £9.99, October 2023,978 0 571 38129 6 Show More
by Brigid Brophy.
Faber, 133 pp., £9.99, October 2023,
“... was ‘no sensualist. He might have made a mechanical engineer.’ Monogamy didn’t suit women best: ‘I can well believe men were masochistic enough to impose monogamy on themselves as a hair shirt, but I find it a touch implausible that the hair shirt designed for the husband just happened to be a comfortable and perfectly fitting garment for the ... ”