Scottish author Muriel Spark published The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie to critical acclaim in 1961, and now children’s publisher Barrington Stoke have brought out a new, “super readable ...

A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12 year old charges with her over-romanticized world view.

Muriel Spark's much-loved and sparkling classic about an Edinburgh school teacher and her influence on her pupils. Read by Gerda Stevenson ...

There was, of course, her Oscar-winning acting masterclass in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) – an immaculate, tragicomic account of school-mistress snootishness and deluded pedagogic over ...

To understand her brilliance, look no further than her complex performance in the 1969 film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. The death of actor Maggie Smith at age eighty-nine has led to an ...