FTP name this author of The Girls of Slender Means and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
In one story by this author, the friendship between Ben and the daughter of author Henry Castlemain spells the end of Carmelita Hope's happiness.  "The Father's Daughter," along with "The Black Madonna," is collected in The Go-Away Bird and Other Stories. The addition to the Meadows Meade textile firm of the hunchback Dougal Douglas is the subject of The Ballad of Peckham Rye, while an anonymous caller telephones Dame Lettie Colston to tell her "Remember, you must die" in Memento Mori.  Better-known are novels about the May of Teck club and the headmistress of the Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh.  FTP name this author of The Girls of Slender Means and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
In one story by this author, the friendship between Ben and the daughter of author Henry Castlemain spells the end of Carmelita Hope's happiness.  
Muriel Spark