The Crooked Dividend

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Critical Concerns for Muriel Spark (Gerard Carruthers)

I: SPARK, BIOGRAPHY, AND FEMALE EXPERIENCE

1. 'I knew what was what': Correspondence and the Meta-Archival in the Muriel Spark Archive (Colin McIlroy)

2. Muriel Spark's Waywardness (Carole Jones)

3. Spark's Spinsters: Bedsits and Boarding Houses in the Novels of Muriel Spark (Susannah Thompson)

4. Between Desire and Control: The Fashioned Image in Muriel Spark's Life and Fiction (Monica German )

5. 'Unfortunately you have left out all the love poems': Spark in Love (Willy Maley and Dini Power)

II: WRITING MATERIALS

6. Muriel Spark and J. M. Barrie (Cairns Craig)

7. All the Abbess's Nuns: Muriel Spark and the Idioms of Watergate (Colin Kidd)

8. 'Making patterns with facts': Unmaking History in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Catriona M. M. Macdonald)

9. Muriel Spark and the 'Hired Grammarians' (Helen Stoddart)

10. Already and Not Yet Written: Unfinished Acts of Writing in the Novels of Muriel Spark (Mark Currie)

11. Muriel Spark's Windows and the Architecture of Surveillance (Amy Woodbury Tease)

12. Art and Industry Must Walk Hand in Hand: Muriel Spark and Twentieth-Century Design Ideology (Fiona Jardine)

13. The Publishing Scene in A Far Cry from Kensington (Ernest Schonfield)

14. Dramatic Contexts and Metatheatricality in Muriel Spark's Writing for Performance (Ian Brown)

Notes on Contributors

Index