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.

Former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre plans to publish a book, Independent, that will explain her switch in ...

Pierre, who worked for two Democratic presidents and had one of the most public-facing roles in the Biden administration, is urging Americans to ...

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

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

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 ...

Zoe Caldwell acts up a typhoon in the title role of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, but is nonetheless unable to conceal that she is one character in pressing search of a play. A clumsy Broadway ...

“Hold up your books,” said Miss Brodie quite often ... “But there was a Miss Jean Brodie in her prime.” She clutched the bars of the grille as if she wanted to escape from the dim ...

which influenced the portrayal of Hogwarts over the series of Harry Potter books. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie was adapted from another celebrated novel, written by Muriel Spark, about a teacher ...

In the case of Smith, she won the Oscar for Best Actress and then the Best Supporting Actress—the first for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and ... In my book, however, the pleasure of ...

Smith’s performance in Othello earned her an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress. Jean Brodie in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) Smith’s portrayal of Miss Jean Brodie in The ...