The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is small but perfectly formed. And as this obit makes plain, Dame Muriel was every bit as formidable as her most famous creation:
She was a mistress of the acerbic or quixotic one liner, always uttered with deliberate and steely composure. "I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control," she said of Marie Stopes. "A spoilt brat," was her verdict on Virginia Woolf. "All right, she committed suicide, but she didn't have to take the dog with her."
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