The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Muriel Spark · 1961 CE · Novel · English · Contemporary

At a conservative Edinburgh girls' school in the 1930s, Miss Jean Brodie teaches her own syllabus — art, Mussolini, her love affairs — to a chosen set of pupils. The Brodie set carry her ideas into their own lives while the headmistress looks for grounds to dismiss her. Influence as tyranny.

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• alludes to ↑ The Gospels
  Christian scripture · c. 70 CE · Scripture
• ↓ The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
  Ronald Neame · 1969 CE · Film — adapts this

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