The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a short book by Muriel Spark, by far the best known of her works. It first saw publication in The New Yorker magazine and was published as a book by Macmillan in 1961. The unforgettable character of Miss Jean Brodie, out of place at Marcia Blaine School, brought Spark international fame and boosted her into the first rank of contemporary Scottish literature. Time Magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best En...
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a short book by Muriel Spark, by far the best known of her works. It first saw publication in The New Yorker magazine and was published as a book by Macmillan in 1961. The unforgettable character of Miss Jean Brodie, out of place at Marcia Blaine School, brought Spark international fame and boosted her into the first rank of contemporary Scottish literature. Time Magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie enjoyed multiple dramatic adaptations: a stage play in 1968, a film starring Maggie Smith in 1969, and a TV serial in 1978. The play and the film reshuffled some of the correspondences between the characters and the plot elements. The TV serial took even greater liberties with the original.
This summary tells the story of the novel mostly in chronological order, which is not true of the original book.
In 1930s Edinburgh, six ten-year-old girls are assigned Miss Jean Brodie,...
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