Inventory of the Brigid Brophy Collection, 1937-1953

Abstract

Brigid Antonia Brophy, Lady Levey (1929-1995), was an English writer of novels, biographies, essays, and other works.

Collection consists of nine volumes of Sigmund Freud's works in English, annotated by Brigid Brophy, who was admittedly influenced by his theories. Also includes an untitled manuscript on telepathy by Brophy, originally inserted in Freud's Collected Papers, Vol. IV.

Descriptive Summary

Repository: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University
Creator: Brophy, Brigid, 1929-1995.
Title: Brigid Brophy Collection, 1937-1953
Language of Material: English
Extent: 0.6 Linear Feet, 10 Items
Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

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Collection of Sigmund Freud Texts, 1937-1953

Collection Overview

Collection contains nine volumes of Sigmund Freud, English translations, published between 1937 and 1953. Included are Volumes I-V of his Collected Papers, as well as Civilization and its Discontents, The Interpretation of Dreams, Inhibitions Symptoms and Anxiety, and Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego. All volumes were owned and used by Brigid Brophy, and include her extensive notes on the front flyleaves; some volumes also include her signature or additional annotations in the margins of the text. Brophy's untitled manuscript on telepathy was originally included in Vol. 4 of the Papers, and is now housed in a folder in the box.

Bibliographic description: Nine vols.; portrait frontispiece in the first work; 2 pp. in Vol. II of Papersfailed to print; 8vo, original cloth; 3 vols. with dust wrappers; spines darkened, that on Vol. 1 of the Papers frayed; all volumes with extensive notes on the front flyleaves, and occasionally elsewhere, by Brigid Brophy; text with underlinings and a few notes; 3 vols. signed by Brigid Brophy; with, loosely inserted in Vol. IV of the Papers, an untitled manuscript essay on telepathy (or The Uncanny, as Freud has it), 2 1/3 pp, 4to, good.

Publication details: All are The Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psychoanalysis except the second, George Allen & Unwin Ltd.

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Contents of the Collection

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Collection of Sigmund Freud Texts, 1937-1953

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Freud, Sigmund. Civilization and its Discontents (London: Hogarth Press and The Institute of Psychoanalysis, 1939).

Brophy's notes on the front flyleaf.

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Freud, Sigmund. The Interpretation of Dreams (London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1937). 1945 Reprint.

Brophy's signature and extensive notes on front flyleaves. Brief annotations in margins throughout.

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Freud, Sigmund. Inhibitions Symptoms and Anxiety (London: Hogarth Press and The Institute of Psychoanalysis, 1948).

Brophy's signature and brief notes on front flyleaf.

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Freud, Sigmund. Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (London: Hogarth Press and The Institute of Psychoanalysis, 1949).

Brophy's signature and brief notes on front and back flyleaves, as well as annotations in margins of Chapters IX-XI. Long annotations on pp 87, 96.

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Freud, Sigmund. Collected Papers, Vol. 1 (London: Hogarth Press and The Institute of Psychoanalysis, 1953).

Brophy's brief notes on front flyleaf.

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Freud, Sigmund. Collected Papers, Vol. II (London: Hogarth Press and The Institute of Psychoanalysis, 1953).

Brophy's notes on front flyleaf.

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Freud, Sigmund. Collected Papers, Vol. III (London: Hogarth Press and The Institute of Psychoanalysis, 1953).

Brophy's notes on front flyleaf.

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Freud, Sigmund. Collected Papers, Vol. IV (London: Hogarth Press and The Institute of Psychoanalysis, 1953).

Brophy's notes on front flyleaf and brief annotations in margins. Removed to folder: An inserted untitled manuscript essay on telepathy (or The Uncanny).

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Freud, Sigmund. Collected Papers, Vol. V (London: Hogarth Press and The Institute of Psychoanalysis, 1953).

Brophy's notes on front flyleaf.

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Historical Note

"A lifelong crusader for multitudinous causes ranging from writers' rights and animal rights to sexual freedom, women's liberation, and vegetarianism, Brophy produced a varied and extensive body of work. Her best-known novels are The King of a Rainy Country (1956), The Finishing Touch (1963), and In Transit (1969). Admittedly influenced by Sigmund Freud's theories, Ronald Firbank's literary style, and G.B. Shaw's aesthetics, Brophy's writings express unconventional and controversial opinions about modern relations, religious education in schools, sexual psychology, pornography, and gender issues." (Excerpt from Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 105, 1998)

Chronology List

Date	Event(s)
12 June 1929	Born in London, England
1947	Admitted to St. Hugh's College, Oxford University. Left Oxford in 1948.
1953	The Crown Princess and Other Stories, Viking (New York, NY)
1953	Hackenfeller's Ape, Hart-Davis (London)
1954	Married Michael Levey
1956	The King of a Rainy Country, Secker and Warburg (London)
1962	Black Ship to Hell, Harcourt (New York, NY)
1962	Flesh, Secker and Warburg (London)
1963	The Finishing Touch, Secker and Warburg (London)
1964	Mozart the Dramatist: A New View of Mozart, His Operas and His Age, Harcourt (New York, NY)
1964	The Snow Ball, Secker and Warburg (London)
1966	Don't Never Forget: Collected Views and Reviews, Cape (London)
1967	Religious Education in State Schools, pamphlet, Fabian Society (London)
1967	Co-author, with husband Michael Levey, and Charles Osbourne: Fifty Works of English and American Literature We Could Do Without, Rapp and Carroll (London)
1968	Black and White: A Portrait of Aubrey Beardsley, Cape (London)
1969	In Transit: A Heroicycle Novel, Macdonald and Co. (London)
1969	The Rights of Animals, Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society (London)
1972-1982	Co-organizer, Writers' Action Group for Public Lending Right
1978	Palace Without Chairs: A Baroque Novel, Atheneum (New York, NY)
1981	Michael Levey is knighted; Brophy becomes Lady Levey
1983	A Guide to Public Lending Right, Gower (Hampshire, England)
1984	Diagnosed with multiple schlerosis
1987	Baroque 'n' Roll and Other Essays, David and Charles (North Pomfret, VT)
1989	Reads: A Collection of Essays, Cardinal (London)
7 August 1995	Died from multiple schlerosis in Louth, Lincolnshire, England