She had begun to write about Miss Kay even as a girl, and her closest schoolfriend,...
Reception
Muriel Spark
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie remains MS
's best-known work. It has long been recognized as a brilliantly woven novel, complex in its narrative techniques and themes.
Oldsey, Bernard Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 15. Gale Research.
MS
wrote constantly as a schoolgirl. She often wrote poems (more sophisticated than her prose) at night while she minded her disabled grandmother. She says she was destined to poetry by all my mentors.