The other teachers and the headmistress Miss Mackay bemoan the fact that Miss Brodie's "special girls" are different from the rest, displaying none of the team spirit the school tries to encourage. Sandy eventually becomes a cloistered nun by the name of Sister Helena Mary MacGregor was killed in a hotel fire and Joyce Emily enlists in the Spanish Civil War, where she is killed. There is also Joyce Emily, who attempts to force her way into the Brodie set, but she is dismissed by Miss Brodie. In the novel, these girls are Sandy, Monica, Jenny, Eunice, Rose, and Mary MacGregor. Out of her class, she selects her favorite girls and attempts to mold them into the "crème de la crème". In 1930, she declares that her "prime" has begun and sets out to make sure her class gets the full benefit of her prime by making sure they are aware of drama, art and fascist beliefs. She is a charismatic spinster who appears to be out of place in her surroundings. In the novel, Miss Jean Brodie is a school teacher at Marcia Blaine, a conservative girls' school in 1930s Edinburgh, Scotland. Lowther and the Brodie set in Jay Presson Allen's stage adaptation of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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