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Review: ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’ by Muriel Spark

By oldenglishrose - Last updated: Friday, August 20, 2010

 At the staid Marcia Blaine School for Girls, in Edinburgh, Scotland, teacher extraordinaire Miss Jean Brodie is unmistakably, and outspokenly, in her prime. She is passionate in the application of her unorthodox teaching methods, in her attraction to the married art master, Teddy Lloyd, in her affair with the bachelor music master, Gordon Lowther, and—most [...]