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Ivy Compton-Burnett

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born

June 05, 1884 in The United Kingdom

died

August 27, 1969

gender

female

website

http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/ivy/index.html

genre

Literature & Fiction

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Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, DBE was an English novelist, published (in the original hardback editions) as I. Compton-Burnett. She was awarded the 1955 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for her novel Mother and Son.

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Books by Ivy Compton-Burnett

Average rating: 3.65 · 320 ratings · 64 reviews · 24 distinct works

	A House and Its Head by Ivy Compton-Burnett, Francine Prose (Introduction) 3.53 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 1966 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Manservant and Maidservant by Ivy Compton-Burnett, Diane Johnson (Introduction) 3.45 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 1925 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Present and the Past 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	A God and His Gifts 3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Mother and Son 3.64 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1955	My rating:
	A Family and a Fortune 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1962 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Brothers and Sisters 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1950 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Pastors And Masters 3.32 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1925 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Parents and Children 3.53 avg rating — 17 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Elders and Betters 3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1944 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Ivy Compton-Burnett

“People do not like to lose their lives. That is the reason why they should not take other people's.”
― Ivy Compton-Burnett

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“Well, the English have no family feelings. That is, none of the kind you mean. They have them, and one of them is that relations must cause no expense.”
― Ivy Compton-Burnett, Parents And Children

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“The wrong is never the only thing a wrong-doer has done.”
― Ivy Compton-Burnett, A House and Its Head

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