CHRONOLOGY
1918 Muriel Sarah Camberg born in Edinburgh.
1934-35 She takes a course in “Commercial correspondence and precis writing” at
Heriot-Watt College.
1937 Muriel marries Sidney Oswald Spark and follows him to Rhodesia
(Zimbawe).
1938 Her son Robin is born in July.
1940 Muriel leave Sidney and Robin.
1944 She returns to the United Kingdom and works in intelligence during
World War II.
1946 She becomes editor of the Poetry Review.
1950“Tribute to Wordsworth” (edited with Derek Stanford).
1951“Child of Light” (a study of Mary Shelley).
1952 “The Fanfarlo and Other Verse” ; “Selected Poems of Emily Brontë”.
1953 “John Masefield”; “Emily Brontë: Her Life and Work” (with Derek Stanford); “My
Best Mary” (a selection of letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, edited
with Derek Stanford).
1954 Muriel decides to join the Roman Catholic Church. She writes “The Brontë letters”.
1957 Publication of “The Comforters”, her first novel. Muriel writes
“Letters
of John Henry Newman” (edited with Derek Stanford).
1958 Publication of her novel “Robinson”. She writes “The Go-away
Bird” (short stories).
1959 “Memento Mori”.
1960 Publication of “The Ballad of Peckham Rye” and “The
Bachelors”.
1961 Publication of “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” and “Voices at Play” (short stories and
plays).
1963 “The Girls of Slender Means” and “Doctors of Philosophy” (play).
1965 Muriel receives the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for “The
Mandelbaum Gate”.
1967 “Collected Poems” and “Collected Stories”.
1968 After living in New York City for some years, Spark moves to Rome,
where she meets the artist and sculptor Penelope Jardine. “The Public Image”
and “The Very Fine Clock” (children’s book, illustrations by Edward
Gorey).
1970 In the early 1970s, they settle in the Italian region of Tuscany and
live in the village of Civitella della Chiana. “The Driver’s Seat”.
1971 “Not to Disturb”.
1973 “The Hothouse by the East River”.
1974 “The Abbess of Crewe”.
1976 “The Takeover”.
1979 “Territorial Rights”.
1981 “Loitering with Intent”.
1982 “Bang-bang You’re Dead” (short stories) and “Going Up to Sotheby’s”
(poems).
1984 “The Only Problem”.
1988 “A Far Cry from Kensington”.
1991 “Symposium”.
1992 Muriel receives the US Ingersoll Foundation TS Elliot Award.
“Curriculum Vitae” (autobiography).
1993 She becomes Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
1996 “Reality and Dreams”.
1997 Spark receives the British Literature Prize.
2000 “Aiding and Abetting”.
2001 “Complete Short Stories”.
2004 “The Finishing School” and “All the Poems”.
2005 She is made an honorary citizen in the village of Civitella della
Chiana.
2006 Muriel Spark dies on April 13th in Florence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriel_Spark
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