Abstract
Difficult to categorise either by literary movement or style, Brigid Brophy’s oeuvre is notable for its determined eclecticism. An accomplished journalist and literary critic, Brophy was also a prolific, and somewhat eccentric, novelist. Among her eleven works of fiction she wrote The King of a Rainy Country, In Transit and Flesh, each of which spoke to the changing ideas of sexuality in post-war Britain and anticipated later debates in feminism on essentialism and the social construction of gender. This article offers a brief introduction to these three novels, situating them in their literary-historical contexts and suggesting that a revival of critical interest in Brophy’s work is important in broadening our understanding of contemporary women’s literature in the post-war period 1945-70.
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