{"id":1538,"date":"2010-03-05T08:23:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T16:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2010-03-05T08:23:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T16:23:41","slug":"ruthless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=1538","title":{"rendered":"Ruthless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/newlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/20100302_spark.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/20100302_spark-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"20100302_spark\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1536\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Martin Stannard&#8217;s long awaited <a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/Muriel-Spark\/Martin-Stannard\/e\/9780393051742\">biography <\/a>of Muriel Spark is due out April 12th. In it, Stannard asserts that Dame Muriel&#8217;s infamous &#8220;ruthlessness&#8221; is what she as a woman artist a male-dominated world needed to have to succeed. Spark was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a survivor, a phoenix\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, and resolutely shook off the clinging hands of &#8220;lesser mortals&#8221;  (her parents, her husband, her publishers, her friends and her own son, of whom she said made her \u00e2\u20ac\u0153life a misery\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, and cut him out of her will), who would have dragged her down.<\/p>\n<p>Muriel Spark published roughly a novel a year, including my favorite, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) which, la cr\u00c3\u00a8me de la cr\u00c3\u00a8me (as Miss Brodie would say), is the book which has secured her popularity.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;She thinks she is Providence, thought Sandy, she thinks she is the God of Calvin.&#8221;<\/em> <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Stannard&#8217;s long awaited biography of Muriel Spark is due out April 12th. In it, Stannard asserts that Dame Muriel&#8217;s infamous &#8220;ruthlessness&#8221; is what she as a woman artist a male-dominated world needed to have to succeed. Spark was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=1538\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[511,549,647],"class_list":["post-1538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","tag-martin-stannard","tag-muriel-spark","tag-prime-of-miss-jean-brodie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}