This author's short stories include "A Hundred and Eleven Years Without a Chauffeur" and "The Gentile Jewesses," while such early stories as "The Portobello Road" and "The Seraph and the Zambesi" were inspired by her time living in Rhodesia.  
This author claims that she has no idea what she meant by the line "Heart of Midlothian, never mine" in one of her early villanelles, while her other poetic works include the lengthy "The Ballad of the Fanfarlo."  This author's short stories include "A Hundred and Eleven Years Without a Chauffeur" and "The Gentile Jewesses," while such early stories as "The Portobello Road" and "The Seraph and the Zambesi" were inspired by her time living in Rhodesia.  Graham Greene encouraged her to begin writing novels and a writer named Caroline Rose is the central character of her first, The Comforters.  Following a divorce she lived for a time at London's Helena Club which inspired the novel The Girls of Slender Means, though she is best known for a work centering on the headmistress of the Marcia Blaine School for Girls. FTP, name this Scottish author of The Ballad of Peckham Rye and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
This author claims that she has no idea what she meant by the line "Heart of Midlothian, never mine" in one of her early villanelles, while her other poetic works include the lengthy "The Ballad of the Fanfarlo."  
Muriel Spark