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What is so fascinating about Muriel Spark? In the last decade before she died aged 88 in 2006, any interview with the ...
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 ...
In the summer of 1953, Muriel Spark – not yet the famous novelist behind The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie – was en route from ...
How a little-known stint working on anti-Nazi propaganda schooled The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’s author in the art of ...
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 ... by Mrs. Jay Allen of a Muriel Spark novel, the drama focuses on the havoc created by ...
“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 ...
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie was adapted from another celebrated novel, written by Muriel Spark, about a teacher who sees herself as a beacon of culture and sophistication in a stuffy Edinburgh ...
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 ...