The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark Reviews
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Newest Review: ... teacher in that she does not teach `by the book` but uses her own methods to teach her girls , mostly by talking about ... more
... herself and her own experiences.The girls are 11 years old when the story starts and this is the age that Miss Brodie likes to start training her girls as they are at an impressionable age.The story is mostly about her favourites , her `creme de la creme` as she puts it, who are a group of six girls who are all different in their own ways. The girls become good friends amongst themselves but are not popular with the other pupils (but teacher`s pets never are).
We follow the girls through their adolescence, from primary scho...more
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by - written on 23/01/12, updated on 20/02/13 (Useful, 34 readings)
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Many years ago I can remember watching `The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie` as a series on TV, so when I saw this book for sale in my local charity shop I decided to buy it.I can remember Miss Brodie being a schoolmistress with a slightly dodgy accent in the series and I remember that I enjoyed each episode and always looked forward to the next. The book did not disappoint me as I could not put it down once I started reading it. I think you can get so much more from a story when you read it as a book than you can from a TV series or a film. The story is set in an all girls school in the early 1930`s with Miss Brodie being an unusual teacher in that she does not teach ... Read the complete review
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