The Public Image Summary
Muriel Spark

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Annabel Christopher has just moved to Rome with her husband Frederick and her baby Carl. Prior to her relocation to Rome, Annabel was an unremarkable British actress for about ten years, but in the two years leading to her move to Italy, her acting career took off. Her film success began with a film entitled The House on the Piazza in which she was portrayed as an "English Tiger-Lady." Since this...

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Muriel Spark Biographies (4)

Muriel Sarah Spark

1,040 words, approx. 4 pages

Muriel Sarah Spark (born 1918) wrote biography, literary criticism, poetry, and fiction, including the novel that was considered her masterpiece, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.Born in Edinburgh on Feb... Read more

Muriel (Sarah) Spark

9,524 words, approx. 32 pages

Muriel Spark came to the novel after a variety of writing experiences. As a free-lance journalist after her intelligence work in World War II, Spark wrote for the Argentor, a jewelry trade magazine, a... Read more

Muriel (Sarah) Spark

4,802 words, approx. 17 pages

Although she is known primarily as a prolific novelist, Muriel Spark began her writing career with a short story. Her first published work of fiction, "The Seraph and the Zambesi" (Observer, December ... Read more

Muriel Sarah Spark

11,356 words, approx. 38 pages

Biography EssayMuriel Spark came to the novel after a variety of writing experiences. As a free-lance journalist after her intelligence work in World War II, Spark wrote for the Argentor, a jewelry t... Read more

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