James Gillespie's School

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Education Muriel Spark
Muriel Camberg (later MS ) started at James Gillespie's School (later James Gillespie's High School for Girls ) in Edinburgh.
Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable.
45, 50
Literary Setting Muriel Spark
MS modelled this book around her own teacher, Christina Kay , a character in search of an author.
Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable.
56
She had begun to write about Miss Kay even as a girl, and her closest schoolfriend,...
Publishing Muriel Spark
The magazine of James Gillespie's High School for Girls included five poems by Muriel Camberg (later MS ), although it was not generally done to include more than one piece by the same girl.
Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
38 and n56

Timeline

1797: James Gillespie, Edinburgh bachelor and self-made...

Building item

1797

James Gillespie , Edinburgh bachelor and self-made snuff merchant, left money at his death to found a day school for poor boys, later for boys and girls.

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