Ivy Compton-Burnett
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Standard Name: Compton-Burnett, Ivy
Birth Name: Ivy Compton-Burnett
published twenty novels: the first while she was in her twenties, in 1911, but the first one to use her mature and startlingly original style when she was forty, in 1925. From the beginning she was praised by critics (sometimes a chorus, sometimes a few lone voices) but sold less well than she would have liked. She was a paradox: a person shaped by Victorian values and social hierarchies, whose novels—composed largely of razor-sharp dialogue—dismantle those values and hierarchies from within.
Timeline
Texts
Compton-Burnett, Ivy. A Family and a Fortune. Gollancz, 1939.
Compton-Burnett, Ivy. A Father and His Fate. Gollancz, 1957.
Compton-Burnett, Ivy. A God and His Gifts. Gollancz, 1963.
Compton-Burnett, Ivy. A Heritage and Its History. Gollancz, 1959.
Compton-Burnett, Ivy. A House and Its Head. Heinemann, 1935.
Compton-Burnett, Ivy. Brothers and Sisters. Heath Cranton, 1929.
Burkhart, Charles, and Ivy Compton-Burnett. “Critical Epilogue”. The Last and the First, Gollancz, 1971, pp. 151-9.
Compton-Burnett, Ivy. Darkness and Day. Gollancz, 1951.
Compton-Burnett, Ivy. Daughters and Sons. Gollancz, 1937.
Compton-Burnett, Ivy. Dolores. W. Blackwood and Sons, 1911.
Compton-Burnett, Ivy. Elders and Betters. Gollancz, 1944.
Sprigge, Elizabeth, and Ivy Compton-Burnett. “Foreword”. The Last and the First, Gollancz, 1971, pp. 7-12.
Compton-Burnett, Ivy. Manservant and Maidservant. Victor Gollancz, 1947.
Compton-Burnett, Ivy. Men and Wives. Heinemann, 1931.
Compton-Burnett, Ivy. More Women than Men. William Heinemann, 1933.
Compton-Burnett, Ivy. Mother and Son. Gollancz, 1955.
Compton-Burnett, Ivy. Parents and Children. Gollancz, 1941.
Compton-Burnett, Ivy. Pastors and Masters. Heath Cranton, 1925.
Compton-Burnett, Ivy et al. The Last and the First. Gollancz, 1971.
Compton-Burnett, Ivy. The Mighty and Their Fall. Gollancz, 1961.
Compton-Burnett, Ivy. The Present and the Past. Gollancz, 1953.
Compton-Burnett, Ivy. Two Worlds and Their Ways. Gollancz, 1949.