The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Muriel Sarah Camberg
- First Published: 1961
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The 1930’s
- Setting: Edinburgh, Scotland
- Principal Characters: Miss Jean Brodie, Sandy Stranger, Jenny Gray, Eunice Gardner, Rose Stanley, Monica Douglas, Mary MacGregor, Teddy Lloyd, Gordon Lowther
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Bildungsroman, Satire
- Subjects: Girls, Maturation or coming of age, Teaching or teachers, Children, Self-discovery, Power, personal or social, Sex or sexuality, Social issues, Education or educators, Betrayal, Friendship, Schools or school life, 1930’s, Women, Death or dying, Moral conditions, Lifestyles, Scotland or Scottish people, Conformity, Students or student life, Fascism
- Locales: Edinburgh, Scotland
Form and Content
Miss Brodie lives life on a grander scale than the typical unmarried schoolteacher does, and she believes that her students should have the benefit of her experiences, which she considers more valuable than the lessons within their texts. Her students are told to hold their history books open when they are really hearing about Miss Brodie’s travels in Italy, her dead fiancé, or her views on art.
The six girls who make up the Brodie set are selected at age ten, when they are in her junior school class. They are chosen not so much for their special...
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