In 1954 she married art historian Michael Levey (afterwards director of the British National Gallery, 1973–87, and knighted in 1981). In 1953, when she was 25, her book of short stories, The Crown Princess, was published it was followed in the same year by her much better received novel, Hackenfeller's Ape. 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. Brigid Antonia Brophy was born on 12 June 1929, in Ealing in west London.
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