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Ivy Compton-Burnett
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Standard Name: Compton-Burnett, Ivy
Birth Name: Ivy Compton-Burnett
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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.
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Occupation | Graham Greene | GG
also worked as director for two different London publishing houses: for Eyre and Spottiswoode
from 1944 (when he resigned from the secret service) to 1948 and for Bodley Head
for ten years beginning in... |
| Occupation | Freya Stark | FS
expressed a strong admiration for Jourdain and her intellectual accomplishments: in letters to her mother, she outlined plans for a writing career on the model of Jourdain's. Stark met Jourdain's partner, Ivy Compton-Burnett
... |
| Occupation | Muriel Spark | She later implied that she got this job on the strength of sharing her enthusiasm for Ivy Compton-Burnett
with a woman at the local Employment Bureau
. She described the work as wonderfully interesting. I... |
| Occupation | Edith Sitwell | It was well attended by women writers. Ivy Compton-Burnett
and Bryher
were there, and H. D.
and Vita Sackville-West
were among the other readers on the evening's programme. Dorothy Wellesley
was to have read also... |
| Occupation | Eva Figes | EF
had a long stint as co-editor of this series, which includes works on Margaret Atwood
, Jane Austen
, Elizabeth Bowen
, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, Frances Burney
, Willa Cather
, Colette
,... |
| Author summary | Barbara Pym | BP
was a distinguished, understatedly comic novelist of the twentieth century, whose autobiographical writings (diaries, letters, and notebooks) were published only after her death. Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press, 1992. 1-2, 9 Pym, Barbara. “Editorial Materials”. A Very Private Eye, edited by Hazel Holt and Hilary Pym, Macmillan, 1984, p. various pages. xiii-xiv |
| Reception | Barbara Pym | Pym is not one of those women writers whose stock has risen through feminist re-evaluation. Five years after the influential Times Literary Supplement article was published, Penelope Lively
wrote, I am always surprised that the... |
| Reception | Elizabeth Taylor | Although she received some glowing reviews throughout her career from some of the most distinguished of her novelistic peers, ET
has also been damned with faint praise. She has been called both the modern man's... |
| Reception | Flora Macdonald Mayor | The novel established FMM
's reputation for precise use of prose, “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. 60741 (4 October 1980): 8 Williams, Merryn. Six Women Novelists, Macmillan, 1987. 45 |
| Reception | Samuel Beckett | Novelist Elizabeth Taylor
boldly took her older friend Ivy Compton-Burnett
to this play, and was rewarded with Compton-Burnett's pronouncement, Not a play to miss. qtd. in Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen, 1986. 96 |
| Textual Features | Rosamond Lehmann | They published some distinguished names—including Edith Sitwell
, Rose Macaulay
, and Ivy Compton-Burnett
—and some promising newcomers, including Margaret Lane
, Margiad Evans
, and Jean Howard
. Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus, 2002. 240-1 |
| Textual Production | Penelope Lively | PL
has published introductions to works by other writers including Ivy Compton-Burnett
, Edith Wharton
, Willa Cather
, and Carol Shields
. In September 2015 she reviewed Alison Light
's Common People: In Pursuit... |
| Textual Production | Cecily Mackworth | When Nathalie Sarraute
argued that the novel is a dead form,CM
thought of three examples to prove her wrong:Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette
's La Princesse de Clèves, Samuel Richardson
's Clarissa, and the novels of Ivy Compton-Burnett
. Mackworth, Cecily. Ends of the World. Carcanet, 1987. 113 |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Taylor | Robert Liddell preserved the letters that ET
wrote him from 1953 onwards. In his book he quotes up to five pages of detailed accounts of visits to Ivy Compton-Burnett
. |
| Textual Production | Pamela Hansford Johnson | In late 1951 she wrote a booklet for the British CouncilWriters and their Work series on Ivy Compton-Burnett
, who was only just beginning to attract attention among those interested in the craft of... |
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