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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

Symposium is a novel by Scottish author Muriel Spark, published in 1990. John Mortimer, writing in The Sunday Times, regarded it as one of the best novels...

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

Glyn Morgan) 6. The Girls of Slender Means and The Mandelbaum Gate by Muriel Spark (with Alan Taylor) 7. Bomber by Len Deighton (with Rob Mallows) 8. For...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

Lord." Gissing originally called his novel Miss Lord of Camberwell. Muriel Spark, the author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and The Ballad of Peckham...

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...

Robinson is the second novel by Muriel Spark, first published by Macmillan in 1958 and in the US by Lippincott, and is unusual within her body of work...

Swiss family, shipwrecked on the way to Australia Robinson (novel), by Muriel Spark Robinson, a novel by Chris Petit. "Robinson" (ja), a #1 hit song by Japanese...

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...

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...