![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I can’t disagree with Hal Hager’s effusive remarks in my sleek Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition: “Irrepressible, imperious, and irresistible, she has joined the ranks of those fictional characters who, through the sheer power of their lives on the printed page, endure in memory and in the culture from which they spring.” Long before this meeting with Miss Brodie on the page, I felt I knew her, partly from having seen (though years ago) the film with Maggie Smith, and partly also from the general circulation of lines from the novel: “For those who like that sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they like” “You are the crème de la crème” “I am a woman in my prime.” Miss Jean Brodie is a fabulous character, as charismatic as a creation as she is as a teacher. ![]() And yet I felt as if I understood better what it was about than why it was written as it was. I’ve finally read The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: that’s one more potential “ Humiliation” winner gone! ![]()
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