Dame Muriel Sarah Spark DBE FRSE FRSL (née Camberg; 1 February 1918 – 13 April 2006) was a Scottish novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist. Muriel...

Samuel Robin Spark (9 July 1938 – 6 August 2016) was a Scottish artist. He was the son of Sidney Oswald Spark and writer Muriel Spark. Prolific in his...

play, which was in turn based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Muriel Spark. The film stars Maggie Smith in the title role as an unrestrained teacher...

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a novel by Muriel Spark, the best known of her works. It was first published in The New Yorker magazine and was published...

Giuseppe Patroni Griffi. Based on the 1970 novella The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark, it is a psychological drama starring Elizabeth Taylor and Ian Bannen...

the leading character in the novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark. Kay, an only child, was born at 4 Grindlay Street, Edinburgh, where...

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The Driver's Seat is a novella by Muriel Spark. Published in 1970, it was advertised as "a metaphysical shocker". It is in the psychological thriller genre...

Loitering with Intent is a novel by Scottish author Muriel Spark. Published in 1981 by The Bodley Head, it was short-listed for the Booker Prize that year...

film Night of the Demon. A reference to the Mark I is also made in Muriel Spark's 1957 debut novel, The Comforters, where the supercharged Sunbeam Alpine...

activist Muriel Smith (politician) (born 1930), Canadian politician from Manitoba Muriel Smith (singer) (1923–1985), American mezzo-soprano Muriel Spark (1918–2006)...

The Comforters is the first novel by Scottish author Muriel Spark. She drew on experiences as a recent convert to Catholicism and having suffered hallucinations...

previously used by Boroughmuir High School as an annex. The novelist Muriel Spark attended James Gillespie's High School from 1923 to 1935. She based the...

Girls of Slender Means is a novella written in 1963 by British author Muriel Spark. It was included in Anthony Burgess's 1984 book Ninety-Nine Novels: The...

the University of Edinburgh, where he also worked on a doctorate on Muriel Spark but did not complete it. He has taught at the university and retains...

Memento Mori is a novel by Scottish author Muriel Spark published by Macmillan in 1959. The title (Latin for "remember you must die"), references a common...

Manchester. (1981) Jean Brodie in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark. Directed by John Dove at the Royal Exchange, Manchester.(1984) Jocasta...

by Robert Enders is based on the 1974 novella The Abbess of Crewe by Muriel Spark. At the little-known and extremely wealthy Abbey of Philadelphia, the...

Role Playwright Venue Ref. 2006 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Sandy Muriel Spark Acorn Theatre, Off-Broadway 2007 100 Saints You Should Know Abby Kate...

Mon Amour by Marguerite Duras (France) The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark (Scotland) The Rosy Crucifixion by Henry Miller (US) – trilogy, first...

The Only Problem is a 1984 novel by Scottish author Muriel Spark, published by The Bodley Head in the UK and by Putnam in the US. Set near St Die in Vosges...

Brodie Steps to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of author Muriel Spark. The Vennel off the Grassmarket in Edinburgh appears in the film The...

Cry from Kensington is a novel (and a roman à clef) by British author Muriel Spark, published in 1988. Set in 1954, it is narrated by Agnes (known as Nancy)...

Jean Brodie is the name of a fictional character in the Muriel Spark novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), as well as in the play and 1969 film of...

Notes 2024 The Girls of Slender Means Selina Redwood Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh Roxana Silbert adaptation of the Muriel Spark novel by Gabriel Quigley...

Brodie, adapted for the stage by Jay Presson Allen from the novel by Muriel Spark. Redgrave had her first credited film role, in which she co-starred with...

Ballad of Peckham Rye is a novel written in 1960 by the British author Muriel Spark. It tells the story of a devilish Scottish migrant, Dougal Douglas, who...

1924 Portnoy's Complaint Philip Roth 1969 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark 1961 Scoop Evelyn Waugh 1938 Sons and Lovers D.H. Lawrence 1913 The Sound...

The Mandelbaum Gate is a novel written by Scottish author Muriel Spark published in 1965. The title refers to the Mandelbaum Gate in Jerusalem, around...

overlooks Iris Murdoch but plumps for Muriel Spark". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 7 April 2010. "Dame Muriel Spark shortlisted for 'lost' Booker Prize"...