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Certain departures from the proper set of the hat on the head were overlooked in the case of fourth-form girls and upwards so long as nobody wore their hat at an angle. But there were other subtle variants from the ordinary rule of wearing the brim turned up at the back and down at the front. The five girls, standing very close to each other because of the boys, wore their hats each with adefinite difference.  \nThese girls formed the Brodie set. That was what they had been called even before the headmistress had given them the name, in scorn, when they had moved from the Junior to the Senior school at the age of twelve. At that time they had been immediately recognisable as Miss Brodie’s pupils, being vastly informed on a lot of subjects irrelevant to the authorised curriculum, as the headmistress said, and useless to the school as a school. These girls were discovered to have heard of the Buchmanites and Mussolini, the Italian Renaissance painters, the advantages to the skin of cleansing cream and witch-hazel over honest soap and water, and the word “menarche”; the interior decoration of the London house of the author of Winnie the Pooh had been described to them, as had the love lives of Charlotte Bronte and of Miss Brodie herself. They were aware of the existence of Einstein and the arguments of those who considered the Bible to be untrue. They knew the  \nrudiments of astrology but not the date of the Battle of Flodden or the capital of Finland. All of the Brodie set, save one, counted on its fingers, as had Miss Brodie, with accurate results more or less.  \nBy the time they were sixteen, and had reached the fourth form, and loitered beyond the gates after school, and had adapted themselves to the orthodox regime, they remained unmistakably Brodie, and were all famous in the school, which is to say they were held in suspicion and not much liking. They had no team spirit and very little in common with each other outside their continuing friendship with Jean Brodie. She still taught in the Junior department. She was held in great suspicion.  \nMarcia Blaine School for Girls was a day school which had been partially endowed in the middle of the nineteenth century by the wealthy widow of an Edinburgh book-binder. She had been an admirer of Garibaldi before she died. Her manly portrait hung in the great hall, and was honoured every Founder’s Day by a bunch of hard-wearing flowers such as chrysanthemums or dahlias. These were placed in a vase beneath the portrait, upon a lectern which also held an open Bible with the text underlined in red ink,“O where shall I find a virtuous woman, for her price is above rubies.”  \nThe girls who loitered beneath the tree, shoulder to shoulder, very close to each other because of the boys, were all famous for something. Now, at sixteen, Monica Douglas was a prefect, famous mostly for mathematics which she could do in her brain, and for her anger which, when it was lively enough, drove her to slap out to right and left. She had a very red nose, winter and summer, long dark plaits, and fat, peglike legs. Since she had turned sixteen, Monica wore her panama hat rather higher on her head than normal, perched as if it were too small and as if she knew she looked grotesque in any case.  \nRose Stanley was famous for sex. Her hat was placed quite unobtrusively on her blonde short hair, but she dented in the crown on either side.  \nEunice Gardiner, small, neat and famous for her spritely gymnastics and glamorous ","cbCaik5QZiK903lI","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaik5QZiK903lI","pdf",2100723,145,"English","# Contents\n## A Biography of Muriel Spark","[{\"question\":\"Who is Jean Brodie in the novel’s context?\",\"answer\":\"Jean Brodie is the influential teacher whose pupils form a distinct “Brodie set” known for absorbing ideas beyond the official curriculum.\"},{\"question\":\"What makes the Brodie set recognizable at the school?\",\"answer\":\"The girls display shared habits and reputations, learned knowledge outside the authorized program, and continued loyalty to Brodie even as they move through higher forms.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the school environment affect the girls?\",\"answer\":\"Formal rules and social suspicion shape how the girls behave publicly, while their private friendships with Brodie help them remain “unmistakably Brodie” despite orthodox expectations.\"}]","The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | PDF",223]