GE
was always ambivalent about the struggle for women's rights. This ambivalence may have been fed by the fact that her situation with Lewes made her peculiarly vulnerable to public attack of a personal flavour...
ICB
came home from Royal Holloway College
with her BA in classics, to teach her younger sisters and to coach her brother Noel
for his exams.
Spurling, Hilary. Ivy When Young. Victor Gollancz.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Ivy Compton-Burnett
The protagonist, a clergyman's daughter, lives up to her name. She is a child at her mother's graveside in the book's opening scene: by the age of thirty-three she has repeatedly sacrificed her hopes of...