[4] Whilst White's work remained at the centre of Brady's writing and teaching, she also published scholarly essays on the fiction of Rolf Boldrewood, Joseph Furphy (a favourite), Tom Keneally, David Malouf, Les Murray, Henry Handel Richardson, Christina Stead and Randolph Stow.

[5] Brady's books included The Future People: Christianity, Modern Culture and the Future (1971);[6] The Mystics (1974);[7] A Crucible of Prophets: Australians and the Question of God (1981);[8] Playing Catholic: Essays on Four Catholic Plays (1991);[9] Polyphonies of the Self (1993);[10] and Caught in the Draught: Contemporary Australian Culture and Society (1994);[11] as well as South of My Days: A Biography of Judith Wright (1998).

The biography draws on primary sources and interviews, and demonstrates the sympathy to the writer that Brady brought to the work of White, arguing that Wright's political activism was closely related to her poetry.

She publicly criticised the Vatican's stance on abortion, homosexuality and contraception, was involved in the Aboriginal rights movement and the anti-uranium mining lobby as well as supporting the ordination of women as priests in the Catholic Church.

[1] Her view of Australia's conservative political elite was, perhaps, best summed up by her forecasts as to which circle of Dante’s hell was the likely destination of various Liberal prime ministers.