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Jean Brodie is the name of a fictional character in the Muriel Spark novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), as well as in the play and 1969 film of the same name—both by Jay Presson Allen—which were both based on the novel.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a 1969 British drama film directed by Ronald Neame from a screenplay written by Jay Presson Allen, adapted from her own stage play, which was in turn based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Muriel Spark.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Eccentric well-meaning Scottish schoolteacher Jean Brodie's extravagantly romantic ideas about life--and love--overly impress her young pupils and bring her into direct conflict with her school's conservative headmistress Miss MacKay.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Ronald Neame
- 1969-02-25
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a novel by Muriel Spark, the best known of her works. It was first published in The New Yorker magazine and was published as a book by Macmillan in 1961. The character of Miss Jean Brodie brought Spark international fame and brought her into the first rank of contemporary Scottish literature.
- Muriel Spark
- 1961
In The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Miss Brodie leads her students through the Old Town of Edinburgh where the streets are full of unemployed men, and where anger flares out at the sight of these privileged schoolgirls and their arrogant teacher.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, novel by Muriel Spark, published in 1961 and adapted for the stage in 1966. The story of an eccentric Edinburgh teacher who inspires cultlike reverence in her young students, the novel was Spark’s best-known work.
In 1932 Miss Jean Brodie, a middle-aged spinster, teaches at Edinburgh's exclusive Marcia Blaine School. A romantic devoted to art and music, as well as a fascist sympathizer, Miss Brodie belittles those who do not share her enthusiasms.
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