The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Further Reading)

Further Reading

• Bottner, Barbara, Let Me Tell You Everything, Harper Collins, 1989.

  The main character in this story, Brogan, is a bright high school student, full of feminist ideas, when she develops a crush on her social studies teacher. The protagonist confronts the imminent divorce of her parents, and her trip through teenage angst is both humorous and thought-provoking.

• Drabble, Margaret, The Radiant Way, Knopf, 1987.

  The ironic title of this novel comes from a children’s primer that depicts life as peaceful and cooperative, which is not quite the experience of the novel’s Cambridge University school chums from the 1950s who reconnect in London in the 1980s.

• Newman, John Henry, Apologia pro Vita Sua, edited by Ian Ker, Penguin Books, 1994; new edition of work originally published by Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864.

  Newman accounts for his spiritual growth from youth through adulthood. A one-time Anglican, Newman converted to Catholicism in 1845, an event he discusses in this work.

• Spark, Muriel, Curriculum Vitae: An Autobiography, Houghton Mifflin, 1993.

  Spark credits the writings of Cardinal John Henry Newman with playing a significant role in her conversion to Catholicism, which plays an important role in her fiction.