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Born in Edinburgh to a Jewish father and Presbyterian mother, Muriel Spark (then Muriel Camberg) was herself raised as a Presbyterian. From 1923 to 1935, she attended the James Gillespie’s School for Girls—a model for the Marcia Blaine School featured in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie —going on from there to teach English and then to work as a secretary in a department store.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a Bildungsroman, that is, a novel that has as one of its themes the formative years or spiritual education of a person. In developing this theme the novel dramatizes the distinction between education and intrusion. Miss Brodie herself defines education as a leading out of what is already in a student’s soul ...
Nearly flawless in its brevity and wit, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie succeeds through its elusive excursions into morality and interpersonal relationships across multiple character studies that are highly nuanced and evade tidy conclusions. Dame Maggie Smith in her Oscar-winning role as Jean Brodie (1969)
Feb 6, 2018 · The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: A Novel. Paperback – February 6, 2018. by Muriel Spark (Author) 3.9 3,574 ratings. See all formats and editions. Now in a special edition marking the 100th anniversary of the author’s birth, Muriel Spark’s classic novel, widely hailed as one of the 20th century’s best. At the staid Marcia Blaine School for ...
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. PG Released Mar 2, 1969 1h 56m Drama. List. 84% Tomatometer 19 Reviews. 85% Audience Score 2,500+ Ratings. Jean Brodie (Maggie Smith) is a free-spirited teacher at a ...
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Directed by Ronald Neame. With Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin, Gordon Jackson. An eccentric Scottish schoolteacher's extravagantly romantic ideas about life--and love--overly impress her young pupils and bring her into conflict with her school's conservative headmistress.
The novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie revolves around the schoolteacher Miss Jean Brodie of Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Scotland. Miss Jean Brodie picked up six girls from the junior class to make them the best of the best. The girls were also called The Brodie Set. The novel shows the influence on the life of these six girls named ...
