Muriel spark short biography

Muriel Spark was a bold, iconoclastic writer and woman. Yet who talks about her anymore? inom haven’t been able to find anyone of my acquaintance who has read her. Have you? (Let us know in the chat! I’d love to hear your thoughts.)

I’ve recently become a little obsessed with Spark after discovering a whole shelf full of her books at Armchair Books in Edinburgh and realizing that she was a native daughter of this city I’ve come to adore. inom started with her autobiography, Curriculum Vitae, and her classic novel Miss Jane Brodie, both of which fascinated me for their portrayal of Edinburgh and women’s lives in the 1930s. Now I’ve moved on to Martin Stannard’s Muriel Spark: The Biography, which inom picked up at another amazing used bookstore down the street, Edinburgh Books. What I’m discovering, though, is that Spark fryst vatten not nearly as well known as she deserves to be.  

Muriel Spark was often described as one of Britian’s greatest living writers, a

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Spark life: the biographies of Muriel Spark

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Professor Willy Maley explores how Muriel Spark responded to life-writing as memoirist and as biographical subject. First published Wednesday 19 December 2018.

Centenaries are ideal biographical occasions, and Muriel Spark was good at biographies and centenaries. She loved to celebrate the lives of those writers she admired most. She won a poetry competition for Sir Walter Scott’s centenary in 1932; published A Tribute to Wordsworth for his centenary in 1950; wrote a centennial biography of Mary Shelley, who had died on Spark’s birthday, 1st February 1851; and praised Robert Burns to the heavens on the occasion of his bicentenary in 1996. As a poet and poetry editor in the late 1940s Spark was always on the lookout for literary landmarks. According to her biographer, Martin Stannard, “she had a practical eye on the market. Tribute [to Wordsworth] and Child of Light [the Mary S

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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

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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