In the summer of 1953, Muriel Spark – not yet the famous novelist behind The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie – was en route from ...

A splash of exoticism at the conservative Marcia Blaine's School for Young Girls in 1930s Edinburgh, Miss Jean Brodie (Smith) is very good at making her students -- the "Brodie girls" -- hers for ...

Muriel Spark, then a 36-year-old divorcee recovering from a mental breakdown, was received into the Roman Catholic Church at ...

Brunswick High School’s 186 seniors are scheduled to graduate on June 6 at the Sidney J. Watson Arena at Bowdoin College.

and where Spark’s most famous book, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, is set. It ends, more or less, with publication of her debut novel, The Comforters, in 1957. Wilson’s style is so original ...

Novelist Dame Muriel Spark, who wrote the classic The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, has died in Tuscany where she had made her home. The Scottish-born writer, who was 88, wrote more than 20 books, ...

Dame Muriel Spark, then one of Britain’s most distinguished living writers, was interviewed for a BBC documentary. During ...

This well-researched biography of Muriel Spark offers fresh insights into her life and work, writes Allan Massie ...

Her book also carries worrying warnings about ... of the author behind so many superb novels, including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Spark, born in Edinburgh in 1918, was only five feet one ...

Actress Dame Maggie Smith, who is best known for roles in the likes of Harry Potter, Downton Abbey and The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie, passed away aged 89 on September 27 2024. During the ...