The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a novel by Muriel Spark, the best known of her works. It first saw publication in The New Yorker magazine and was published as a book by Macmillan in 1961. The character of Miss Jean Brodie brought Spark international fame and brought her into the first rank of contemporary Scottish literature. In 2005, the novel was chosen by Time magazine as one of the one hundred best English-language novels from 1923 to present. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie No. 76 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.
Firbank Grammar School is an independent, Anglican, day and boarding school, situated in the suburb of Brighton, in the bayside area of Melbourne, Australia.
Newlands Girls' School is a girls' comprehensive school in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England.
MLC School is an independent Uniting Church single-sex early learning, primary, and secondary day school for girls, located in the inner western Sydney suburb of Burwood, New South Wales, Australia. The school enrols students from early learning, through Year K to Year 12.
Melbourne Girls Grammar, is an independent, Anglican, day and boarding school for girls, located in South Yarra, an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Manchester High School for Girls is an independent day school for girls and a member of the Girls School Association. It is situated in Fallowfield, Manchester, England.
Walthamstow Hall is an independent day school for girls in the centre of Sevenoaks, Kent, England.
Avonbourne Girls' Academy is a secondary school with academy status located in Bournemouth, Dorset, England. It is a single-sex all-girls school for 11- to 16-year-olds.
Kinmel Hall is a mansion near the village of St. George, close to the coastal town of Abergele, in Conwy county borough, Wales.
Lowther College was a private school for girls in the United Kingdom in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a 1969 British drama film directed by Ronald Neame and written by Jay Presson Allen. It stars Maggie Smith in the title role as an unrestrained teacher at a girls' school in Edinburgh. The screenplay was adapted by Jay Presson Allen from her own stage play, which was based in turn on the novel of the same name by Muriel Spark.
Rosemary Hall was an independent girls school at Ridgeway and Zaccheus Mead Lane in Greenwich, Connecticut. It was later merged into Choate Rosemary Hall and moved to the Choate boys' school campus in Wallingford, Connecticut.
Satan's School for Girls is a 1973 American made-for-television horror film directed by David Lowell Rich, and produced by Aaron Spelling. The film has been named as one of the most memorable television movies of the 1970s.
Ibstock Place School is an independent co-educational day school for pupils aged 4 –18 located in Roehampton, south-west London. The School was founded as the Froebel Demonstration School, the name meaning that it was connected with the Froebel Institute and the demonstration of its educational principles. For many years the school educated pupils up to the age of 13. In 1976, however, this was extended to 16 years until the age range extended to 18 years after a Sixth Form was established in 2005.
Dame Katherine "Kitty" Anderson, was a British schoolteacher. She was headmistress of the North London Collegiate School from 1945 to 1965.
Anne van Zyl is a South African education administrator from Cape Town, South Africa. She is the headmistress of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls. She has also been headmistress at five different schools including Pretoria High School for Girls, St. Stithians College, and Bridge House School. She is known in academic circles for her work in education, including the integration of Pretoria High School for Girls which became the first segregated white state school in the Northern Transvaal to open its doors to all races during apartheid when integrated state schools were still illegal.
Harvington Prep School and Nursery is an independent preparatory school in Ealing, west London. It has a thriving co-educational Nursery that embeds and fosters learning, preparing children for the main school. Boys continue up to the age of 7 and then take the 7+ tests for entry into boys’ schools or co-educational schools of their choice. Girls continue to Year 6 where they sit the 11+ tests for the top London Independent Schools or Grammar Schools. Harvington Prep School and Nursery is a leading West London prep school and is a noted feeder school of the best London schools including St Paul's Girls School, City of London School for Girls, Latymer, Notting Hill & Ealing High School. The Independent Schools Inspectorate reports that the school secures high levels of academic achievement and excellent personal development for the pupils, within the context of a close-knit, multi-cultural environment. They go on to state that standards are high and progress is rapid in relation to pupils of a similar ability. Full Day fees are £3,825 for Nursery, £4,200 for Transition and £4,500 for years 1 - 6. Scholarships and bursaries are available.
Agnes Body was a British headmistress. She was the founding head of Lincoln Christ's Hospital Girls' High School and Queen Margaret's School, then in Scarborough.
Elizabeth 'Betty' Wharton Lemarchand was an English writer of detective novels and short stories. She was an educator by trade, employed as deputy headmistress of the Godolphin School, Salisbury from 1943 until 1960, and as acting headmistress in 1959. She then moved to Lowther College, North Wales, where she was headmistress from 1960 until 1961. Her novels feature CDI Tom Pollard and his assistant Sergeant Toye of Scotland Yard. The first, Death of an Old Girl, was published in 1967; it was followed by 16 others. Stylistically, Lemarchand has been called "a novelist who has absorbed the general airs and graces of the Golden Age of Detection of the 1920s and 1930s, taken them to heart, but updated them to the period of the 1960s."
Nancy Jobson was an Australian teacher and headmistress.
