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Ivy Compton–BurnettBORN: 1884, Piner, Middlesex, EnglandDIED: 1969, London, EnglandNATIONALITY: BritishGENRE: FictionMAJOR WORKS:A House and Its Head (1935)Elders and Betters (1944)Manservant and Maidservant (1947)The Present and the Past (1953)Mother and Son (1955) Source for information on Compton–Burnett, Ivy: Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of World Literature dictionary.
Ivy was born in Pinner in 1884, the seventh child of a leading homeopathic physician, Dr James Compton Burnett. She was the first child of his second marriage: her mother, Katharine Compton Burnett, was a beautiful, delicate, imaginative, imperious and highly competitive woman who had met her future husband as his patient, and fallen passionately in love with him.
Ivy Compton-Burnett (5 de junho 1884 – 27 de agosto 1969) foi uma novelista inglesa. Bibliografia completa. Dolores (obra de juventude, 1911) Pastors and Masters (1925) Brothers and Sisters (1929) Men and Wives (1931) More Women Than Men (1933) A House and Its Head (1935) Daughters and Sons (1937) A Family and a Fortune (1939)
18 de mar. de 2021 · Ivy Compton-Burnett has always provoked strong reactions. Along with much critical success, she consistently elicited shock or dismay with each successive novel. Our new edition of Compton-Burnett’s A House and Its Head is ‘[t]he merriest tale of human depravity you will ever read‘ according to Hilary Mantel.
Ivy Compton-Burnett has 24 books on Goodreads with 10119 ratings. Ivy Compton-Burnett’s most popular book is A House and Its Head.
Ivy Compton-Burnett (5 juni 1884 - 27 augustus 1969) was een Engels romanschrijfster. Zij groeide op in een groot gezin in Hove en Londen en was de dochter van een bekend homeopathisch arts. In 1911 verscheen haar eerste roman, Dolores , die weinig opzien baarde en waar zij zich later enigszins van distantieerde.
29 de ago. de 2012 · Ivy Compton-Burnett’s novels have been variously compared to Greek tragedy, Henry James with a dash of Oscar Wilde, and many others. This suggests a sort of critical fumbling rather than serious indebtedness or affinity. The fact is that there is simply no one like her, demanding and rewarding in equal measure.
