id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5311 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (novel) - Wikipedia .html text/html 2636 241 76 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (novel) Wikipedia The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie First edition cover The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a novel by Muriel Spark, the best known of her works.[1] It first saw publication in The New Yorker magazine and was published as a book by Macmillan in 1961. In 1930s Edinburgh, six ten-year-old girls, Sandy, Rose, Mary, Jenny, Monica, and Eunice are assigned Miss Jean Brodie, who describes herself as being "in my prime," as their teacher. The character of Miss Jean Brodie was based in part on Christina Kay, a teacher of Spark's for two years at James Gillespie's School for Girls. On 5 November 2019 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie appeared on the BBC News list of the 100 most influential novels.[16] The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Prime_of_Miss_Jean_Brodie_(novel)&oldid=997770114" ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5311.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5311.txt