#the prime of miss jean brodie

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

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

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Dame Maggie Smith as Jean Brodie

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)

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Movie poster illustrations by Ted CoConis

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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)

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The Brodie Set (2018) by Andrew Cranston

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Meadows Mural at Middle Meadow Walk.

Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature

Never walked much yesterday, big toe on my right foot a bit sore, I did a wee walk today, just under 5K (7,280 steps), still feeling it a wee bit, but getting there. I walked along Brougham Street and onto the Meadows, my main aim was to see if the cherry blossom was worth capturing yet, some trees around town had been showing a wee bit colour, but nothing of note here, so I headed up Middle Meadow Walk where this mural is, it bears a great extract by Muriel Spark’s quintessential novel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie......

They were crossing the Meadows, a gusty expanse of common land, glaring green under the snowy sky. Their destination was the Old Town,  for Miss Brodie had said they should see where history had been lived; and their route had brought them to the Middle Meadow Walk. Eunice, unaccompanied at the back, began to hop to a rhyme which she repeated to herself:  ‘Edinburgh, Leith,  Portobello, Musselburgh  And Dalkeith.’

Where to tomorrow? Who knows, any suggestions, am willing to travel maybe an hour or so.

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Muriel Spark - The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie

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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 :)

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

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I truly think The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is one of (if not the) best antifascist texts out there because it doesn't just say 'this is what fascism is' or 'fascism is bad' it explores the material way fascistic thinking affects the people forced to live with/around those who adhere to it even in an ostensibly not fascist country. And how easy it is for people with otherwise progressive beliefs (feminism-for instance) to fall into fascistic thinking, and further, indeed how easily anyone can fall into fascistic thinking, without even realizing it, if it is what they are taught.

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"Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life."

- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Sparks

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[elisaenglish]

Leaving this here for that last line alone—for a little “her feat, and really who am I?”

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Sandy gave her mother a look of secret ferocity which meant: you promised to leave us all on our own, and a promise is a promise, you know it's very bad to break a promise to a child, you might ruin all my life by breaking your promise, it's my birthday. ---Muriel Spark/The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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