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Muriel Sarah Spark

Female : Novelist & Poet. Converted to Catholicism. Married S O Spark whilst she was in Africa in 1938 (dissolved)
Nationality : Scottish Place of Birth : Edinburgh

Date of Birth : 1918

Pseudonyms : Muriel Camberg

Education : James Gillespie's Girls School, Edinburgh
All Macmillan unless stated
1933-1950
Out of a Book
(1933 ? Leith, Midlothian, Millar & Burden) - as Muriel Camberg
Reassessment
(1948 Sundial House) - with Howard Sergeant. Single leaf folded
(Ed) Tribute to Wordsworth (1950 Wingate) - with Derek Stanford

1951-1960
Child of Light - A Reassessment of Mary Woolstencraft Shelley
(1951 Tower Bridge)
The Fanfarlo & Other Verses
(1952 Hand Flower Press, Aldington, Kent)
(Ed) A Selection of Poems by Emily Bronte (1952 Grey Walls Press)
Emily Bronte : Her Life and Work
(1953 Owen) - with Derek Stanford
John Masefield
(1953 Nevill)
(Ed) My Best Mary : The Letters of Mary Shelley (1953 Wingate) (1972 Folcroft Editions)
- with Derek Stanford
(Ed)The Bronte Letters (1954 Peter Nevill)
The Comforters
(1957) (1957 Lippincott)
(Ed) The Letters of J H Newman (1957 Peter Owen) - with Derek Stanford
Robinson
(1958) (1958 Lippincott)
The Go-Away Bird & other Stories
(1958) (1960 Lippincott)
Memento Mori
(1959) (1959 L)
The Ballad of Peckham Rye
(1960) (1960 L)
The Bachelors
(1960) (1961 L)

1961-1970
Voices at Play
(1961) - ss
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
(1961) (1962 L)
[Filmed in 1969]
The Girls of Slender Means
(1963) (1963 Knopf)
Doctors of Philosophy
(1963) (produced in London 1962) - Play
The Mandelbaum Gate
(1965) (1965 Knopf)
Collected Poems 1
(1967)
Collected Stories 1
(1967) (1968 Knopf)
The Public Image
(1968) (1968 Knopf)
The Very Fine Clock
(1968 Knopf) (1969 Macmillan) - Edward Gorey
The Driver's Seat
(1970) (1970 Knopf)

1971-1990
Not to Disturb
(1971)
(1971 Observer Books, London - 500 signed by Spark & Michael Ayrton ) (1972 Viking NY)
The Hothouse by the East River
(1972) (1972 Viking NY)
The Abbess of Crewe
(1974) (1974 Viking NY)
[Filmed in 1976 as "Nasty Habits"]
The Takeover
(1976) (1976 Viking NY)
Territorial Rights
(1979 £5.95) (1979 Coward McCann)
Loitering with Intent
(1981 Bodley Head) (1981 C Mc)
Bang-Bang You're Dead & Other Stories
(1982 Granada)
Going Up to Sotherby's & Other Poems
(1982 Granada)
The Only Problem
(1984 Bodley Head) (1984 C Mc)
The Stories of Muriel Spark
(1985 Dutton) (1987 BH)
Mary Shelley
(1988 Constable) - revision of Child of Light
A Far Cry from Kensington
(1988 Constable) (1988 Houghton Mifflin)
Symposium
(1990 Constable £11.95) (1990 Houghton Mifflin $18.95)
The Portobello Road & Other Stories
(1990 Eurographica, Helsinki) - 350 numbered & signed

After 1991
Curriculum Vitae : A Volume of Autobiography
(1992 Constable £14.95) (1993 HM)
The French Window & The Small Telephone
(1993 Colophon Press) - Ltd Ed 123. - ss
Reality & Dreams
(1996 Constable £14.95)
Aiding and Abetting
(2000 Viking £12.99)
The Finishing School
(2004 Viking £12.99)
All the Poems
(2004 Carcanet £9.95)

READING
Thomas A Tominaga & Wilma Schneidermeyer : Iris Murdoch & Muriel Spark - A Bibliography
(1976 Scarecrow Press)
Alan Bold : Muriel Spark
(1986 - pb original)
David Rees : Bibliography of Muriel Spark, William Trevor & Ian McEwan
(1992 Colophon Press)

Related Writers

Michael Ayrton
Observer Books
Mary Shelley
William Trevor