![]() ![]() ![]() This is the first of the many flashbacks and flash-forwards Sparks uses throughout the novel. Next, it flashes back to 1930, when the girls became Miss Jean Brodie’s “crème de la crème” started a two year tutelage with Jean Brodie's. The story starts in 1936, when the girls are sixteen. ![]() Her individualistic attitude causes conflict with the more staid headmistress, Miss Mackay, who becomes set on discovering evidence that she can use to discredit Miss Brodie and drive her out of the school. ![]() In her discussions, Miss Brodie references art history, fascism, and classical studies. Beyond, or more appropriately, instead of the customary curriculum her teaching includes the subjects of personal life, love, and travels. Most of the novel takes place during the 1930s at the Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh, Scotland, The book center on the schoolmistress, Miss Jean Brodie and her girls, a small group of students, known as "the Brodie set." The girls are six, junior level, ten year old girls when they became Miss Jean Brodie’s “crème de la crème” and started a two year tutelage with Jean Brodie. Jean Brodie illuminates two interlaced eras the 1930s when most of the action takes place and the 1960s when it was published. The remarkable story of The Prime of Miss. ![]()
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