The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
By Muriel Spark
Splendid by Destructive Egotism
By MARTIN PRICE
January 21, 1962
ive years ago there appeared a brilliant novel which dealt with the psychic upheaval of a young woman recently converted to Catholicism. The heroine was filled with doubts and surrounded by doubters; most of all she was troubled by voices which (to the clicking of their busy typewriters) read aloud to her the novel of which she was a helpless part. Eventually she recovered and wrote the novel herself. It was called "The Comforters," the first of a remarkable series of comic tales, of which "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" is the latest.