However, Miss Brodie never overtly acts on her love for Mr Lloyd except once to exchange a kiss with him, witnessed by Monica. These two teachers form a love triangle with Miss Brodie, each loving her, but she loves only Mr Lloyd. In the Junior School, they meet the singing teacher, the short Mr Gordon Lowther, and the art master, the handsome, one-armed war veteran Mr Teddy Lloyd, a married Catholic with six children. However, in one of the novel's typical flash-forwards we learn that one of them later will betray Brodie, ruining her teaching career, but that she never will learn which one. Under her mentorship, these six girls whom Brodie singles out as the elite group among her students-known as the 'Brodie set'-begin to stand out from the rest of the school. Miss Brodie, determined that they shall receive an education in the original sense of the Latin verb educere, 'to lead out', gives her students lessons about her personal love life and travels, promoting art history, classical studies, and fascism. In 1930s Edinburgh, six 10-year-old girls, Sandy, Rose, Mary, Jenny, Monica, and Eunice, are assigned Miss Jean Brodie, who describes herself as being 'in prime,' as their teacher. 76 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie No. In 2005, the novel was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to present. The character of Miss Jean Brodie brought Spark international fame and brought her into the first rank of contemporary Scottish literature. It was first published in The New Yorker magazine and was published as a book by Macmillan in 1961.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a novel by Muriel Spark, the best known of her works.

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