#miss jean brodie

[spiritusloci]

Miss Jean Brodie, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (2023)

#midjourney 5.2 #miss jean brodie #jean brodie #the prime of miss jean brodie #imaginary portraits #muriel spark #the lit life series

[scotianostra]

23rd May 1951 saw the death in Edinburgh of Christina Kay, the inspiration behind Miss Jean Brodie.

The daughter of Mary Ann MacDonald and Alexander Kay, a cabinet maker, led an uneventful life, but one that would inspire one of the great characters of 20th-century literature: Miss Jean Brodie. From the age of five, Christina Kay was a pupil at James Gillespie’s School for Girls, where she would later teach. 

Between 1897 and 1899, she completed her teacher training at the Church of Scotland college in Edinburgh, where her conduct was described as “exemplary”. An only child and a devout Christian, Kay was born and lived in the same flat, at 4 Grindlay Street, Edinburgh, almost all her life. Her father died when she was 15, and she lived with her mother, caring for her until her death in 1913.

Kay devoted her life to teaching at Gillespie’s. Since in her early years very few women could take degrees, as younger colleagues later could, she remained a “class mistress”, without promotion. But she was an inspirational teacher to her classes of 11 and 12-year-olds, sharing with them her passion for the arts. In 1929/30 they included the young Muriel Camberg (later Spark), whose literary success she predicted. Spark’s Curriculum Vitae  vividly recalling Miss Kay, makes it clear that Jean Brodie was based on “that character in search of an author”.

Kay would exhilarate her pupils by speaking in “dazzling non-sequiturs” about her foreign travels, particularly to Italy, and the great art she saw there, reproductions of which adorned her schoolroom walls. She admired Mussolini, and a picture of his Fascisti was given wall space. Kay called her entire class the “creme de la creme”, but she also had favourites, including Camberg and her friend Frances Niven, whom she took to exhibitions, theatre and ballet. Most of her pupils found her teaching unforgettable.

Kay kept her coming retiral in 1942 secret, but a tribute in the school magazine said that “service like hers must surely be unique”. After her death in 1951, she was buried in Abercorn churchyard.

The pic is of Miss Kay’s class in 1930, Muriel Camberg (Spark) is 2nd from the right in the middle.

Spark later wrote: ‘Miss Kay predicted my future as a writer in the most emphatic terms. I felt I hardly had much choice in the matter.’

Read more on this here https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1991/03/25/the-school-on-the-links

#scotland #scottish #educator #edinburgh #teacher #miss jean brodie #history

[hairtusk]

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969, dir. Ronald Neame)

#the prime of miss jean brodie 1969 #the prime of miss jean brodie

[zippocreed501]

Dame Maggie Smith as Jean Brodie

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)

#maggie smith #the prime of miss jean brodie #muriel spark #author extraordinaire

[archiveofillustration]

Movie poster illustrations by Ted CoConis

#ted coconis #illustration #the prime of miss jean brodie #dorian grey #fiddler on the roof #the princess bride #hair

[womansfilm]

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)

#🖤🖤🖤 #celia johnson #the prime of miss jean brodie #m #sorry for what i am about to say. KUNTENSERVENNNNN

[dasenergi]

#prime of miss jean brodie

[effysayres]

The Brodie Set (2018) by Andrew Cranston

#andrew cranston #painting #art #the prime of miss jean brodie

[moratoirenoir]

#gres #cabochard #bernard chant #the prime of miss jean brodie #jay presson allen #ronald neame #georgy girl #silvio narizzano

[lisamarie-vee]

#muriel spark #the prime of miss jean brodie #book cover #1960s

[steeleyespan]

guy reading this discworld audiobook doing seriously thee worst scottish accent for the trolls. Woke me back up last night while i was falling asleep to it cos it was dealing me psychic damage

#he did like a Posh scottish accent for another character like Miss jean brodie ass accent and it was actually good #but this is meant to be i think a glasgweigian accent and its honestly so bad. #i wish i was American so i didn't notice this shit. (lie)

[scotianostra]

23rd May 1951 saw the death at Midhope of Christina Kay, the inspiration behind Miss Jean Brodie.

The daughter of Mary Ann MacDonald and Alexander Kay, a cabinet maker, Christina was born on Grindlay street just to the west of Edinburgh Castle on May 11th 1878.

Christina led an uneventful life, but one that would inspire one of the great characters of 20th-century literature: Miss Jean Brodie. From the age of five, Christina Kay was a pupil at James Gillespie’s School for Girls, where she would later teach.

Between 1897 and 1899, Kay completed her teacher training at the Church of Scotland college in Edinburgh, where her conduct was described as “exemplary”. An only child and a devout Christian, her father died when she was 15, and she lived with her mother, caring for her until her death in 1913.

After that Kay devoted her life to teaching at Gillespie’s. Since in her early years very few women could take degrees, as younger colleagues later could, she remained a “class mistress”, without promotion. But she was an inspirational teacher to her classes of 11 and 12-year-olds, sharing with them her passion for the arts. In 1929/30 they included the young Muriel Camberg (later Spark), whose literary success she predicted. Spark’s Curriculum Vitae  vividly recalling Miss Kay, makes it clear that Jean Brodie was based on “that character in search of an author”.

Kay would exhilarate her pupils by speaking in “dazzling non-sequiturs” about her foreign travels, particularly to Italy, and the great art she saw there, reproductions of which adorned her schoolroom walls. She admired Mussolini, and a picture of his Fascist was given wall space. Kay called her entire class the “creme de la creme”, but she also had favourites, including Camberg and her friend Frances Niven, whom she took to exhibitions, theatre and ballet. Most of her pupils found her teaching unforgettable.

Kay kept her coming retiral in 1942 secret, but a tribute in the school magazine said that “service like hers must surely be unique”. After her death in 1951, she was buried in Abercorn churchyard, West Lothian.

The pic is of Miss Kay’s class in 1930, Muriel Camberg (Spark) is 2nd from the right in the third row, Christina Kay just above her to the left.

Spark later wrote: ‘Miss Kay predicted my future as a writer in the most emphatic terms. I felt I hardly had much choice in the matter.’

Read more on this here https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1991/03/25/the-school-on-the-links

#Scotland #scottish #Edinburgh #educator #teacher #miss jean brodie #history #muriel spark

[hairtusk]

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969, dir. Ronald Neame)

#mine #the prime of miss jean brodie #the prime of miss jean brodie 1969

[lizbethborden]

Lisa Ann’s look from that pre Oscars party is like a choir mistress at an all girls school in a late 60s/early 70s lesbian sexploitation film. Like a more heavily betittied Prime of Miss Jean Brodie situation.

#was going to say ‘lesbian prime of miss Jean Brodie’ #but ummmmm that’s just the prime of miss Jean Brodie as is

[thumbedpages]

Muriel Spark - The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie

#muriel spark #the prime of miss jean brodie #books read 2021

[readerbookclub]

Morally Grey - August Book List

Hello everyone! I’m very excited to be back with the first book list in a loooong time. Looking forward to reading with you again :)

The characters on this list aren’t perfect--they might not even be good. These stories are all about people who are flawed and make morally questionable choices. 

As always, please vote for which one we should read next. The link is at the bottom of this post. 

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, by Muriel Sparks

At the staid Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh, Scotland, teacher extraordinaire Miss Jean Brodie is unmistakably, and outspokenly, in her prime. She is passionate in the application of her unorthodox teaching methods and strives to bring out the best in each one of her students. Determined to instill in them independence, passion, and ambition, Miss Brodie advises them, "Safety does not come first. Goodness, Truth, and Beauty come first. Follow me." And they do--but one of them will betray her.

Eileen, by Otessa Moshfegh

The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father’s caretaker in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a secretary at the boys prison, filled with its own quotidian horrors. Consumed by resentment and self-loathing, Eileen tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of escaping to the big city. In the meantime, she fills her nights and weekends with shoplifting, stalking a buff prison guard named Randy, and cleaning up her increasingly deranged father’s messes. When the bright, beautiful, and cheery Rebecca Saint John arrives on the scene as the new counselor at the prison, Eileen is enchanted and proves unable to resist what appears at first to be a miraculously budding friendship. But her affection for Rebecca ultimately pulls her into complicity in a crime that surpasses her wildest imaginings.

Bel-Ami, by Guy de Maupassant

Young, attractive and very ambitious, George Duroy, known to his friends as Bel-Ami, is offered a job as a journalist on La Vie francaise and soon makes a great success of his new career. But he also comes face to face with the realities of the corrupt society in which he lives - the sleazy colleagues, the manipulative mistresses and wily financiers - and swiftly learns to become an arch-seducer, blackmailer and social climber in a world where love is only a means to an end. Written when Maupassant was at the height of his powers, Bel-Ami is a novel of great frankness and cynicism, but it is also infused with the sheer joy of life - depicting the scenes and characters of Paris in the belle epoque with wit, sensitivity and humanity.

The Secret History, by Donna Tart

Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality they slip gradually from obsession to corruption and betrayal, and at last—inexorably—into evil.

Stay with Me, by  Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

Yejide and Akin have been married since they met and fell in love at university. Though many expected Akin to take several wives, he and Yejide have always agreed: polygamy is not for them. But four years into their marriage--after consulting fertility doctors and healers, trying strange teas and unlikely cures--Yejide is still not pregnant. She assumes she still has time--until her family arrives on her doorstep with a young woman they introduce as Akin's second wife. Furious, shocked, and livid with jealousy, Yejide knows the only way to save her marriage is to get pregnant, which, finally, she does--but at a cost far greater than she could have dared to imagine. An electrifying novel of enormous emotional power, Stay With Me asks how much we can sacrifice for the sake of family.

Vote here for which book we should read :)

#book club #book list #booklr #the prime of miss jean brodie #eileen #bel-ami #the secret history #stay with me