![]() ![]() ![]() But Spark’s own mother was a music teacher like Gordon Lowther, and here lies one of many subtle influences from Spark’s life that infiltrate the novel. While Christina Kay did indeed hang posters of Renaissance art as well as of Mussolini on her classroom walls, she took care of her aging mother, not the music teacher. It seems, however, that besides the inspiration of her former teacher, Miss Jean Brodie is drawn from Spark’s own interesting life. ![]() Miss Christina Kay was a respected teacher who encouraged her students along their chosen paths. The title character in Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie was, on the surface, based on a teacher in whose class Spark was a pupil for two years, starting when she was eleven years old. Don Wilms led the RVA ((Richmond, Virginia) Classic Book Club Discussion of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark. ![]()
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