The prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Top class for 200 years

Evening News - Scotland | January 11, 2003| | Copyright

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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THE Marcia Blaine School for Girls has changed a lot since Jean Brodie's time. For a start, the real Edinburgh school on which Dame Muriel Spark based her book, and her own alma mater James Gillespie's turned comprehensive in the late 60s.

And these days it's a pretty multicultural school at that something which would probably leave the slightly-to-the-right-of- Mussolini teacher appalled. Her creme de la creme, after all, didn't include one face which wasn't white and middle-class.

But, while the ...

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