Christina Kay

This endowed foundation, in origin Presbyterian, had pupils of many faiths. Muriel was, she says, its Poet and Dreamer. She was well taught, and regarded by her teachers as showing exceptional promise. During her...

MS wrote constantly as a schoolgirl. She often wrote poems (more sophisticated than her prose) at night while she minded her disabled grandmother. She says she was destined to poetry by all my mentors.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie remains MS 's best-known work. It has long been recognized as a brilliantly woven novel, complex in its narrative techniques and themes.MS herself commented on its...

MS modelled this book around her own teacher, Christina Kay , a character in search of an author. She had begun to write about Miss Kay even as a girl, and her closest schoolfriend,...