Caryl Brahms, born Doris Caroline Abrahams (1901 – 1982) was an English writer.

Caryl Brahms was born into a Sephardic Jewish family who had come to Britain from Turkey a generation earlier. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music and began to write for the London Evening Standard, and later the Daily Telegraph, as ballet correspondent. Sephardim (ספרדי, Standard Hebrew Səfardi, Tiberian Hebrew ardî; plural Sephardim: ספרדים, Standard Hebrew Sfaradim, Tiberian Hebrew ) are a subgroup of Jews, generally defined in contrast to Ashkenazim and/or . ... For other uses, see Jew (disambiguation). ... The Royal Academy of Music (sometimes abbreviated to RAM) is a music school in London, England and is one of the leading music institutions in the world. ...

In 1937 she began her series of collaborations with S J Simon, with A Bullet in the Ballet, which introduced the phlegmatic Inspector Adam Quill and the excitable members of Vladimir Stroganoff’s ballet company. The same characters appeared in Casino for Sale (1938), Envoy on Excursion (1940) and Six Curtains for Stroganova (1945). S J Simon (Seca Jascha Skidelsky) (born 1904, died 1948) was a British writer. ...

Brahms and Simon also wrote what they called ‘backstairs history’ producing their own highly unreliable and comic retellings of history – Elizabethan (No Bed for Bacon, 1941), Victorian (Don’t, Mr Disraeli, 1940), and Queen Anne to George V (No Nightingales).

After Simon’s death, Caryl Brahms wrote on her own and also in partnership with Ned Sherrin, adapting for television plays by Georges Feydeau, Sacha Guitry and Eugene Labiche, as well as producing original work for television and the theatre. Ned Sherrin (born 18 February 1931 in Somerset, England) is a broadcaster, author and stage director. ... Georges Feydeau, (8 December 1862-5 June 1921) was a French playwright of the era known as La Belle Epoque. ... Sacha Guitry, born February 21, 1885 in St. ... Eugène Marin Labiche (May 5, 1815-1888), was a French dramatist. ...

As a seasoned literary collaborator, Caryl Brahms was in a good position to write a book about Britain’s most famous theatrical collaboration, her 1975 Gilbert and Sullivan – Lost Chords and Discords. However, the book was controversial. One review said, "It is an opinionated work which is not amiss from a critic such as Brahms, but laced throughout there are sometimes juvenile, sometimes merely indulgent, interjections sure to delight some and quickly tire others."[1] W. S. Gilbert Sir Arthur Sullivan Librettist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) collaborated on a series of fourteen comic operas in Victorian England between 1871 and 1896. ...

Reference

• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography