Talk:Muriel Spark

message: Sorry, total noob - but muriel spark has just died, according to italian officials.
Death announced today (15th April), but she died on Thursday (13th April)  Kevin McE 10:25, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
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message: The "external link" to the Jewish Chronicle isn't; it actually links to the Wikipedia article about the Chronicle. Can somebody fix this? I tried but I can't find the original Chronicle article. If it isn't online then the link should be removed.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.3.45.16 (talk) 00:53, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
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message: "Dame Muriel Spark, the author of "The prime of Miss Jean Brodie" and several other celebrated works, is halachically Jewish. ... Her son Robin, 59, a painter in Edinburgh, has his maternal grandparents' ketubah, or marriage certificate.  This records the marriage, on February 1, 1911, of Bernard Cumberg and Sarah Uezzel Hyams, at the East London Synagogue, Stepney."  (Jewish Chronicle, March 13 1998, page 1, "Discovered: a lost chapter in L'chaim of Miss Jean Brodie".)  Clearly, if both of her parents were Jewish, she must count as Jewish by ethnicity even if she practised another religion.--20.138.246.89 15:06, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Spark herself always denied that her mother was Jewish (though it's not disputed that her father was). I don't know the truth, but I find it odd that the article claims her mother was Anglican. The obit cited to support the statement that her mother was English (which is not in dispute) says nothing about her religion, and furthermore Spark herself was baptised as an Anglican only in adulthood, changing her mind and becoming a Catholic not long afterwards.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.3.45.16 (talk) 01:01, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

text: From what I can tell she didn't identify as fully Jewish and her mother being Jewish is disputed so it makes sense not to place her in that category. However as her father being Jewish is not disputed, and she apparently called herself "half-Jewish", I added her to :Category:Scottish people of Jewish descent.--T. Anthony (talk) 01:40, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Muriel Spark was Jewish 

message: Name seems to vary:
:In 1937, she married Sidney Oswald Spark
and
:His father was Sydney Spark
So which is it? And the duplication also seems unnecessary. --22:01, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
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message: Would love to see more info on this novel and the film. Muriel Spark deserves a much more in-depth biography, I hope someone with a good background on her comes across this message and adds some info....OttawaAC (talk) 02:03, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

message: [This article] says that "In 1940 Muriel left Sidney and Robin." However, the Wikipedia article on her son says "Muriel left him, taking Robin with her."[]
Either Muriel left her son with his father or she took him with her when she left her husband. Which account is right? Michael Glass (talk) 00:55, 8 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  When Muriel Spark left her husband, what happened to her son? 

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