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Exploring personal politics in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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Exploring personal politics in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

The sinister Jean Brodie continues to bewitch: decades after the publication of the novel that bears her name, the myth of her humanism persists; she has long been shorthand for a strain of idealism and independent thought that she never represented in the first place. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, about a controversial teacher…