The Edinburgh character of “informed air.”
The Edina temperament is severe, sartorial, self-governing and superstitious and steeped in the supernatural.” An attitude, a dry sense of humour and a way of seeing things. Sane, eccentric or just plain mad?
Spark was an enigma, a puzzle. She was extremely guarded and private. She also lived in the future tense – pretence, counterfeit and games.
She was an artist and a poet – a consummate woman writer of 20th century.
After her breakdown she began again as a novelist. The technique and strangeness of her voices – that electric spark.
There is a new biography about her life ‘Electric Spark’
*BOOK - Her most famous book is the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
