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	Muriel Spark Archive - National Library of Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Muriel Spark was identified as a promising and creative writer when her name was still Muriel Camberg and she was still at school.
		Dame Muriel – poet, writer of fiction and literary criticism, and biographer – went on to win most of the literary awards going, was never out of print, and was at the top of her profession, internationally, for more than half a century.
		Best-known as the author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel decided in the 1940s to keep a record of her professional and personal activities, beginning a personal archive that is now one of the largest and most comprehensive held by the National Library of Scotland.
	www.nls.uk /murielspark/index.html (143 words)

	Muriel Spark - MSN Encarta
		Spark’s incisive satires of social pettiness and vanity speak to the mystery and terror of life, death, and eternity—universals that the literate and cultured characters of her books are forever in danger of forgetting.
		Spark was born Muriel Sarah Camberg in Edinburgh, Scotland.
		Spark’s shorter fiction was collected in the books The Stories of Muriel Spark (1985), Open to the Public: New and Collected Stories (1997), and All the Stories of Muriel Spark (2001).
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761571320/Spark_Muriel.html (416 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Obituaries \| Obituary: Dame Muriel Spark
		Spark moved in the first instance to New York, where she had a staff writer's booth at William Shawn's New Yorker (Shawn had printed the whole manuscript of Jean Brodie in one issue of the magazine), and then, in 1967, to Rome.
		Having alighted upon her protagonist, Spark seemed to cast aside all the fevered speculation about his fate and instead created for him, and us, a most unlikely outcome; she puts him into therapy and, in a startling volte-face, makes his therapist a charlatan who is in herself in flight from a previous identity.
		Spark, whose vitality belied her octogenarian frailty, was witty and generous to the journalists desperate to press her on exactly what she knew about a subject whose peculiarly English predicament had simply taken her fancy.
	books.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,,1755114,00.html (2374 words)

	Muriel Spark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Spark talks about this phase of her life with the same unblinking detachment she turns on everything: she is faintly amused, mildly astonished, forever precise and indignant at this, the crazy narrative of her 20s.
		Spark was 33, renting a room in London's Old Brompton Road and earning £134 a year as a jobbing writer - of poetry, journalism and speech material on industrial relations, a subject about which she knew nothing but, with her customary flair, managed to pull off.
		Spark's own social position changed radically, not with the publication of her first novel - which was generally well received but didn't make her fortune - but with the success of The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie, the fictional schoolteacher who incinerates her enemies with a sharp tongue.
	www.fcsh.unl.pt /docentes/cceia/M_spark.htm (4232 words)

	Muriel Spark Archive - National Library of Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Muriel Spark archive is unique among the National Library of Scotland's collections of papers of Scottish writers.
		The early sparse records of wartime poverty that chart the struggles of an unknown author are joined by scores of diaries, numerous accounts and cheque books, and tens of thousands of letters, growing in number as her fame has risen.
		Muriel used the collection extensively to write her autobiography, Curriculum Vitae, and it was after the publication of this book in 1992 that the first consignment of papers arrived in the Library.
	www.nls.uk /murielspark/archive.html (243 words)

	The Herald
		The Edinburgh-born writer, known from an early age as "a poet and a dreamer", was buried at a private funeral in Tuscany on Saturday.
		Spark had lived in Italy since the late 1960s, first in Rome and later in a converted thirteenth-century church in Tuscany with her friend, Penelope Jardine, a painter and sculptor.
		Although not solely based on Kay, Spark once remarked that the teacher "had it in her, unrealised, to be the character that I invented".
	www.theherald.co.uk /60187.shtml (1074 words)

	Muriel Spark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Muriel Spark, DBE (February 1, 1918 – April 13, 2006) was a leading Scottish novelist.
		She was born Muriel Sarah Camberg in Edinburgh, to a Jewish father and an Anglican mother, and was educated at James Gillespie's High School for Girls.
		Spark left him in Rhodesia at the age of six while she moved to England and, while she maintained it was her intention for them to set up home in England, he actually returned to Britain with his father 18 months later to be brought up by his maternal grandparents in Scotland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Muriel_Spark (997 words)

	BBC - Writing Scotland - Muriel Spark
		Muriel Spark was born Muriel Sarah Camberg in Edinburgh in 1918 to a Scottish father and an English mother.
		During the Second World War, Spark was conscripted to the Political Intelligence Department of the British Foreign Office where she worked as a propagandist for the war effort.
		In 1993, Spark was made a Dame of the British Empire and a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (France) and, in 1997, she received the David Cohen British Literature Prize for Lifetime Achievement.
	www.bbc.co.uk /scotland/arts/writingscotland/writers/muriel_spark (410 words)

	ARMAVIRUMQUE: THE NEW CRITERION'S WEBLOG
		Muriel Camberg was certainly one of Miss Kay's favorites, for she and a schoolmate accompanied her (at Miss Kay's expense) to the theater, to art galleries, and to Anna Pavlova's last tour of Edinburgh.
		Muriel Spark's sojourn in Africa was the opposite of pleasant: a failed marriage, poverty, little prospect of leaving before the end of the war, few friends with literary interests.
		Spark landed a plum job with the Foreign Office after a woman at the employment bureau noticed that she was reading a novel by one of her favorite writers, Ivy Compton-Burnett.
	www.newcriterion.com /weblog/2006/04/muriel-spark-1918-2006.html (4545 words)

	USATODAY.com - British novelist Muriel Spark dies at 88 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Spark died Thursday in a hospital in Florence, said Massimiliano Dindalini, the mayor of the Tuscan village of Civitella della Chiana, where Spark had lived for almost three decades.
		Born Muriel Sarah Camberg in Edinburgh in 1918, Spark was married at 19 to Sidney Oswald Spark, a teacher, and had a son, Robin.
		Muriel Spark returned to London in 1944 and worked in intelligence for the Foreign Office before entering the literary world as a publisher's copy editor, poet and literary critic.
	www.usatoday.com /life/people/2006-04-15-muriel-spark_x.htm (867 words)

	Muriel Spark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Scottish born writer, Muriel Spark, was born in 1918.
		Spark's works include The Comforters (1957), Memento Mori (1959), The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1960), The Girls of Slender Means (1963), and The Mandelbaum Gate (1965), a more serious story of tensions in the Holy Land.
		Spark's shorter fiction has been collected in The Stories of Muriel Spark (1985), and she has also written poetry and literary criticism.
	www.webscot.co.uk /greatscots/spark.htm (334 words)

	Aiding and Abetting - Muriel Spark
		Ms Spark, now in her 80s, is famous for spare books that combine macabre subjects, a witty voice and moral import.
		Spark orchestrates her characters' fates with icy aplomb, pulling their marionette strings as unashamedly as they try to pull one another's.
		It is a pleasure to read Spark: she writes very well, her crisp, simple, but very sharp style a welcome antidote to much of the over-fancy writing one finds nowadays.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/sparkm/aandabet.htm (1582 words)

	Muriel Spark Archive Summary - National Library of Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Papers, from around 1943-1993, of Muriel Spark, including manuscripts, typescripts and proofs relating to her autobiography, Curriculum Vitae, and her critical works on the Brontës and John Masefield, manuscript notes for various published and unpublished works, and scripts of adaptation of her novels for radio, television and the theatre.
		Papers, from around 1986-1995, of Muriel Spark, consisting mostly of correspondence arising from the writing and publication of her autobiography, Curriculum Vitae, and also including general business correspondence, 1990-1995, together with a small number of working notes and manuscripts.
		Letters (including cards, juvenile drawings, etc.), 1943-1996 (not dated), of Robin Spark to Muriel Spark, his mother, including some copies of her replies, and letters of her mother to her.
	www.nls.uk /murielspark/archive_summary.html (375 words)

	Scotsman.com News - UK - Dame Muriel Spark dies aged 88 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		MURIEL Spark was the greatest Scottish novelist of modern times, the irony being that she departed Scotland as a teenager and returned thereafter only for brief visits.
		Spark's characters were usually upper-middle class and living in exotic locations, leading her to be marginalised.
		DAME Muriel Spark was one of the liveliest and most original literary talents to be discovered in Britain in the second half of the 20th century.
	news.scotsman.com /uk.cfm?id=577502006 (2544 words)

	Independent Online Edition > News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Dame Muriel Spark, one of the greatest post-war novelists and creator of some of modern literature's most endearing and complex characters, including the much-loved, Mussolini-admiring Edinburgh schoolmistress Miss Jean Brodie, has died in Italy at the age of 88.
		Confirmation of Dame Muriel's death in a hospital in Florence on Thursday came only yesterday and was announced by the mayor of Civitella della Chiana, the ancient Tuscan town where she had lived for nearly 30 years.
		Born Muriel Sarah Camberg in Edinburgh in 1918 to a Jewish Lithuanian father and English mother, Spark's first novel, The Comforters, was not published until 1957.
	enjoyment.independent.co.uk /books/news/article358016.ece (666 words)

	Muriel Spark - Books From Scotland
		Muriel Spark was the grande dame of Scottish letters.
		Spark was born Muriel Camberg in Edinburgh in 1918 and educated at James Gillespie's School for Girls (said to be the inspiration for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, her best known novel).
		Spark’s writing career began early on when she won a prize in school but she first came to the public’s attention when she won a short story competition in the Observer.
	www.booksfromscotland.com /Authors/Muriel-Spark (425 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Author Muriel Spark dies aged 88
		Dame Muriel was considered one of the liveliest literary talents in her more than 50 years of publishing.
		Dame Muriel moved to the US in the late 1960s for a brief period before moving to Italy where she continued to write poetry and novels.
		Christine Lloyd, who founded the Muriel Spark Society, recalled how fortunate the society felt when the author attended a luncheon in her honour at the Edinburgh Book Festival in 2004.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/4911878.stm (570 words)

	Muriel Spark in Conversation
		In life and in her fiction, Muriel Spark notices the female.
		In reality, a few years prior to writing this book, Spark herself had been writing a book about TS Eliot, was penniless, suffering from anorexia, insomnia and depression and living chiefly on Dexedrine and coffee.
		In the fifties, when Muriel was a young woman with little to shore her up in the world save a belief in her own talent, feeling couldn't have seemed much cop.
	www.galloway.1to1.org /Spark.html (2440 words)

	Muriel Spark - Palimpsest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		It could be that Spark, rather like early Waugh (and Waugh, to balance the sentence, was a great fan of early Spark), just sets the characters going like little tin toys and watches them from afar, not caring for empathy or continuity.
		And so to Muriel Spark's second novel, Robinson (1958), a shorter one again than The Comforters at 175 pages, and with the unique status (in my reading of her novels to date) of having a first person narrative.
		Muriel Spark's 1968 novel The Public Image is modern in its approach to celebrity and the way such public figures simultaneously use the media to achieve their ends (fame, fortune...
	www.palimpsest.org.uk /forum/showthread.php?t=1704 (2018 words)

	James Gillespie's High School - Muriel Spark.
		Muriel Spark is second from the right in the third row from the front.
		Although the unconventional fictional character was in some ways unlike her real life model, Muriel felt that Miss Kay 'had it in her, unrealised, to be the character I invented.
		Muriel was known as the school's 'poet and dreamer'.
	www.jghs.edin.sch.uk /frontpage/murielspark.html (198 words)

	Muriel Spark - Penguin UK Authors - Penguin UK
		Muriel Spark was born and educated in Edinburgh.
		Not brief in duration (her current author biography states she 'has been active in the field of creative writing since 1950 when she won a short story competition in the Observer').
		The title, like Muriel Spark herself, in person, by fax and phone, (an unusual thing for someone one thinks one knows so well) is pure Muriel Spark - poised, apposite, comic, grand.
	www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000030777,00.html (1174 words)

	Amazon.com: All the Poems of Muriel Spark: Books: Muriel Spark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		All the Poems of Muriel Spark should be read as a lifetime of stand-alone poems, since the poems were written over a very long period of time.
		One of the greatest and most underrated novelists and short-story writers of the 20th century (Memento Mori, 1959; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, 1961; The Girls of Slender Means, 1963; The Driver's Seat, 1970; The Takeover, 1976; Loitering With Intent, 1981), Muriel Spark is a visionary and a true original.
		Readers will be uncomfortably reminded of Spark's onetime T.S. Eliot fixation in many of the early poems, while others attempt and fail to carry off Stevie Smith's idiosyncratic brand of British humor.
	www.amazon.com /All-Poems-Muriel-Spark/dp/0811215768 (807 words)

	Salon \| Sneak Peeks
		And while Spark writes with blithe, ironic strokes, her narratives are always deeper and more probing than they seem.
		She repeatedly tries to force the theme of "redundancy" -- redundant employees are fired, redundant spouses are left behind -- but it never really sticks.
		Spark's least inspired books are preferable to many writers' best efforts.
	www.salon.com /april97/sneaks/sneak970403.html (515 words)

	SLAINTE - Scottish Writers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Death, Lies and Lipstick - a conversation between Janice Galloway and Muriel Spark.
		Muriel Spark on being shaped by the real Miss Jean Brodie - interview from CBC Entertainment
		Muriel Spark Official Web Site - biographical note, books in print and the first chapter of her latest book.
	www.slainte.org.uk /scotwrit/Authors/Spark.htm (263 words)

	Muriel Spark Life Stories, Books, & Links
		On this day in 1961 Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie was published.
		Innocence is abruptly overturned in these pages, but Spark has structured her novel so that we realise we are about to be blown into tragedy.
		Spark's subject is always, ultimately, man's place in a world that God is entitled to treat as a funhouse.
	todayinliterature.com /biography/muriel.spark.asp (850 words)

	Bibliography - Muriel Spark - National Library of Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Bibliography - Muriel Spark - National Library of Scotland
		Tribute to Wordsworth [edited by Muriel Spark and Derek Stanford]
		Emily Brontë: her life and work [by Muriel Spark and Derek Stanford]
	www.nls.uk /murielspark/bibliography.html (69 words)

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