Ivy Compton-Burnett biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett

Author Name:

Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett

Born As:

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Other Names:

Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett.

Born:

05 Jun 1884

Died:

27 Aug 1969




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Novelist                          
Selected Works:

Dolores - 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
Parents and Children - 1941
Elders and Betters - 1944
Manservant and Maidservant - 1947, published in the US as Bullivant and the Lambs
Two Worlds and Their Ways - 1949
Darkness and Day - 1951
The Present and the Past - 1953
Mother and Son - 1955
A Father and His Fate - 1957
A Heritage and Its History - 1959
The Mighty and Their Fall - 1961
A God and His Gifts - 1963
The Last and the First - published posthumously in 1971.                          
One brother died of pneumonia, another was killed on the Somme, and two sisters died in a suicide pact on Christmas Day.