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The prime of miss jean brodie6/20/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The best-known adaptation is probably the 1969 film, directed by Ronald Neame and starring Maggie Smith, who won a Best Actress Academy Award for her performance in the title role. The novel has been variously adapted into a play, a film, and a television miniseries. This is put against Miss Brodie's two romances - with Mr Lowther, Marcia Blaine's singing master, a church elder and bachelor and Mr Lloyd, the school's art master, a married Roman Catholic with several children - as well as the attempts of the school's headmistress, Miss Mackay, to remove Brodie from her post. Set at Edinburgh's conservative Marcia Blaine School for Girls in the 1930s, the novel deals with the eponymous schoolteacher and her 'set', whose futures and loyalties she seeks to influence along Calvinist (and, increasingly, Fascist) lines. First published in 1961, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is probably the best-known novel by the Scottish author Muriel Spark. ![]()
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