TY - BOOK AU - Spark,Muriel AU - McWilliam,Candia TI - The prime of Miss Jean Brodie T2 - Modern classic SN - 9780141181424 U1 - 823 PY - 2000/// CY - London PB - Penguin Books KW - Teacher-student relationships KW - Fiction KW - Women teachers KW - Girls KW - Scotland N2 - Romantic, heroic, comic and tragic, unconventional schoolmistress Jean Brodie has become an iconic figure in post-war fiction. Her glamour, unconventional ideas and manipulative charm hold dangerous sway over her girls at the Marcia Blaine Academy - 'the creme de la creme' - who become the Brodie 'set', introduced to a privileged world of adult games that they will never forget. Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie was adapted into a successful stage play, and later a film directed by Ronald Neame and starring Maggie Smith ER -