NMLP P-022068 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Muriel Spark · Macmillan (UK) · 1961

The UK Macmillan edition (1961) is the true first, preceding the US Lippincott edition (1962). The novel also appeared, slightly abridged, as essentially the entire 14 October 1961 issue of The New Yorker, but that magazine appearance is not a book edition.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-022068 for "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" by Muriel Spark (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-022068, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).