A biography of muriel spark novels
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Muriel Spark: The Biography
Muriel Camberg was born in Edinburgh in 1918, at the end of WWI. She had a Jewish father and English mother and her background, and family, was very interesting. I enjoyed reading about her early days; although her relationships as a young girl would be repeated throughout her life. With her only brother, she was never close, and she had a particularly difficult relationship with her mother, Cissy. inom was also fascinated to read of her schooldays, so much of which seemed to spegel the ‘Brodie Set.’
A young, rather hasty, marriage later and Muriel became Mrs Spark; heading to Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) to join her future husband in 1937. The marriage resulted in her onl
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Muriel Spark
Scottish author (1918–2006)
Dame Muriel Sarah Spark (née Camberg; 1 February 1918 – 13 April 2006)[1] was a Scottish novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist.
Life
[edit]Muriel Camberg was born in the Bruntsfield area of Edinburgh, the daughter of Bernard Camberg, an engineer, and Sarah Elizabeth Maud (née Uezzell).[2][3] Her father was Jewish, born in Edinburgh of Lithuanian immigrant parents, and her English mother had been raised Anglican. She was educated at James Gillespie's School for Girls (1923–35), where she received some education in the Presbyterian faith. In 1934–35 she took a course in "commercial correspondence and précis writing" at Heriot-Watt College. She taught English for a brief time and then worked as a secretary in a department store.
In 1937 she became engaged to Sidney Oswald Spark, 13 years her senior, whom she had met in Edinburgh. In August of that year, she followed him to Southern Rhod
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Muriel Spark
Dame Muriel Spark—the highly acclaimed Scottish writer—published over twenty novels and more than a dozen short-story collections from the late 1950s until her death in 2006. Two of her novels, The Public Image and Loitering with Intent, were short-listed for the Booker Prize, and another, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, was made into an Academy Award–winning movie. David Herman here assembles an international group of scholars to contexualize and analyze Spark's works, highlighting the continuing relevance of her texts in the twenty-first century.
With three new essays and a reworked introduction by the editor, this volume expands a special issue of Modern Fiction Studies dedicated to Spark and her writings. Organized thematically into three parts, the volume includes essays that consider Spark as both Scottish and world author, situate Spark in the broader contexts of postwar culture, and offer exemplary readings of specific works from various critical pers