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	ivycomptonburnett
		Ivy left Hove forever in 1914, heading for London, and in 1919 met Margaret Jourdain the writer and antiquarian..
		Ivy continued to write successfully and they lived together in a wide circle of writers and musicians until Margaret's death in 1951.
		In 1967 Ivy was awarded the D.B.E. and elected as a Companion of the Royal Society of Literature.
	www.womenofbrighton.co.uk /ivycomptonburnett.htm (287 words)

	Ivy Compton-Burnett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ivy Compton Burnett was born in 1884 and wrote books about the relationships between family members.
		Ivy was the first to be born by Katharine and James.
		Ivy was left to care for the house and her sisters.
	www.yudev.com /mfo/britlit/compton-burnett_ivy.htm (387 words)

	AllRefer.com - Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett (English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biographies
		Ivy Compton-Burnett's unconventional novels of the Edwardian gentry reveal beneath their irony, satire, and wit an embittered, frightful world of hypocrisy and cruelty.
		Her writings are noted for their lack of plot, their absence of description and characterization, and their almost complete reliance on articulate, highly stylized conversations.
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	Ivy Compton-Burnett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	NYRB: Ivy Compton-Burnett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ivy Compton-Burnett (1892-1969) wrote over fifteen novels about the upper classes of the late Victorian period.
		The novels are constructed almost entirely of seemingly banal dialogue that eventually reveals, beneath its surface, the truths of human nature and insights into human relationships which Compton-Burnett took as her themes.
		A House and Its Head is Ivy Compton-Burnett's subversive look at the politics of family life, and perhaps the most unsparing of her novels.
	www.nybooks.com /nyrb/authors/7419 (120 words)

	Encyclopedia: Ivy Compton-Burnett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett D.B.E. August 27, 1969) was an English novelist.
		Brothers and Sisters is a 1929 novel by Ivy Compton-Burnett.
		The Present and the Past (1953) is a novel by Ivy Compton-Burnett about the head of a family who, although outwardly powerful and in charge, is suffering under the fact that he is being belittled and at some point even outright ignored by family and servants alike.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ivy-Compton_Burnett (1198 words)

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		This site is devoted to Ivy Compton-Burnett the novelist; describes her books, with quotations; and provides a biography of her early life, and some literary criticism.
		Ivy Compton -Burnett - her own views on her writing and its morality.
		For more information a good site is The Ivy Compton-Burnett Homepage, giving information on where to buy the novels, more quotations from her works, interviews and obituaries, a summary biography, and a comprehensive bibliography.
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	Compton-Burnett, Ivy -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		The name ivy especially denotes the commonly grown English ivy (H. helix), which climbs by aerial roots with adhering disks that develop on the stems.
		Compton Mackenzie was a British novelist, playwright, and poet.
		In his early research on the measurement of radiation, he found that when X rays strike graphite they are scattered and their wavelengths are increased.
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	Rob Burnett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Burnett, Coree Original prose and poetry, personal information, and links.
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	Geometry.Net - Authors Books: Compton-burnett Ivy
		A HOUSE AND ITS HEAD, like so many of Ivy Compton-Burnett's novels, reads something like a modern updating of a Greek tragedy: most of the novel is told through dialogue, there is a kind of chorus that comments on the action of the principal characters, and the plot involves murder, incest, and familial cruelty.
		No one writes novels quite like Ivy Compton-Burnett: they're really more like novelized plays than anything else, and as Diane Johnson notes in her extremely intelligent foreword to this edition, Compton-Burnett's antecedents are more with Oscar Wilde than anyone else, in her love of savage epigrams and wordplay.
		Ivy Compton-Burnett's first novel, Dolores, was a sprawling and sentimental romance.
	www.geometry.net /authors_bk/compton-burnett_ivy.html (1221 words)

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		Ivy Compton-Burnett’s father was a doctor whose first wife died in childbirth after producing six children.
		Dr Burnett, a homeopath, published dozens of medical works and also built several homes in Hove before his sudden death aged 60 in 1901 when Ivy was nearly 17.
		Ivy’s first novel Dolores appeared in 1911, the year in which her mother died, but she did not like the work and it was another 14 years before her next book was published.
	www.buses.co.uk /history/fleethist/621ib.htm (227 words)

	Ivy Compton-Burnett \| A Précis
		She has a striking ability to stop a reader dead in his/her tracks with some stunning statement and this is a distinguishing feature between her and many of the great novelists to whom she has been compared.
		Ivy had 6 younger siblings, including brothers Guy and Noel to whom she was especially close.
		Ivy's rejection of the Hogarth Press's advances to publish her books fostered a rift between her and Woolf which never healed.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /ivy/ivybio.html (773 words)

	Geometry.Net - Authors: Compton-burnett Ivy
		Ivy Compton Burnett was born in 1884 andwrote books about the relationships between family members.
		Two of Ivy's novels were reissued in paperback by New York Review Books in March 2001.
		Liddell's friendships with the novelist Elizabeth Taylor and Ivy Compton-Burnett.
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	Ivy Compton-Burnett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The daughter of a well-known doctor Compton-Burnett up amongst numerous siblings in Hove and London.
		No one writes novels quite like Ivy Compton-Burnett: they're really more like novelized plays than anything else, and as Diane Johnson notes in her extremely intelligent foreword to this edition, Compton-Burnett's antecedents are more with Oscar Wilde tha...
		Ivy when young;: The early life of I. Compton-Burnett, 1884-1919
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	Ivy Compton-Burnett Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	glbtq >> literature >> Compton-Burnett, I.
		Compton-Burnett, I. The English lesbian novelist I[vy] Compton-Burnett explored passionate friendship between two women in her first novel and included lesbian and gay characters in two later novels.
		Compton-Burnett was born June 5, 1884 (although she claimed 1892), earned a B.A. in Classics with second honors in 1906 from the Royal Holloway College of the University of London, was knighted in 1967, and died August 19, 1969.
		Ronald Firbank's witty, campy novels mock the dominant homophobic, materialistic culture of early twentieth-century England.
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	Women of the Word (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Queen Elizabeth II made her a Dame Commander in the Order of the British Empire in 1971, and she became known as Dame Agatha Christie.
		Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884-1969), an English novelist, ranks among the most accomplished literary stylists of her time.
		Queen Elizabeth II made her a Dame Commander in the Order of the British Empire in 1967, and she became known as Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett.
	www.worldbook.com /features/wwriters/html/novelistsc-e.html (1879 words)

	Compton-Burnett, Dame Ivy -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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		Burnett's films were revered by critics yet rarely enjoyed any commercial success.
		The college remains affiliated with the Roman Catholic church, and more than half of the students are Roman...
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	Heritage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Now that Julian Mitchell has adapted an Ivy Compton-Burnett novel to the stage, it seems strange that this has not been done before.
		The novels are written in dialogue form, in concise, gnomic phrases, arid on the page, and the living actors humanise the speeches and at the same time make clear who has spoken.
		This most unusual play, adapted by Julian Mitchell from Ivy Compton-Burnett's novel of the same name which was published in 1959, was originally presented at the Oxford Playhouse.
	www.picks.plus.com /howard/heritage.htm (375 words)

	Ivy Compton-Burnett -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett D.B.E. (1884 – August 27, 1969) was an (An Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the Commonwealth countries) English (Someone who writes novels) novelist.
		The daughter of a well-known (A licensed medical practitioner) doctor, Compton-Burnett grew up amongst numerous siblings in (Click link for more info and facts about Hove) Hove and (The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center) London.
		Most of her novels are out of print.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/iv/ivy_compton-burnett1.htm (676 words)

	UK Student Wins Appalachian College Association Fellowship
		Loretta Beth Kemper plans to use the $30,000 fellowship to finish her dissertation, which focuses on the use of country houses as symbolic settings in the novels of British author Ivy Compton-Burnett.
		The fellowships, available to faculty at Appalachian colleges since 1980, provide up to $30,000 for pre- or post-doctoral study or research for a summer, one semester or a year.
		Kemper plans to use the fellowship to finish her dissertation, which focuses on the use of country houses as symbolic settings in the novels of British author Ivy Compton-Burnett.
	www.uky.edu /PR/News/Archives/2000/MAY2000/KEMPER.HTM (216 words)

	Ivy
		1996 Edward Digby Baltzell, Ivy League sociologist, dies at 80
		Ivy Williams is 1st woman to be called to the English Bar
		1906 Benita Hume, born in London, England, actress, Vicky-Halls of Ivy
	www.brainyhistory.com /topics/i/ivy.html (141 words)

	Ivy Compton Burnett Biography and Quotes Sites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	TW3: Virtual Ink Web Guide: Single Author Sites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In addition to the annotated book list one might expect -- and articles about the author gathered from here and there -- Lindkvist offers a bountiful harvest of quirky asides and an enlightening table laid with pertinent details of the fictional life and addictive M.O. of Macdonald's detective, Lew Archer.
		Another site devoted to single authors is The Ivy Compton-Burnett Home Page, a labor of love mounted by devotees of the late English novelist.
		We add the site not because we share the site publishers' devotion (although we certainly have nothing against the author), but because the site is done so well and in such depth.
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		DESCRIPTION: 3 ALSs from Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett to CS regarding the BBC adaptation of her novel, A Heritage and its History.
		DESCRIPTION: 5 ALS from Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett to CS regarding a play by Compton-Burnett and a book sent by CS to Compton-Burnett.
		DESCRIPTION: 4 TLSs from Elizabeth Sprigge regarding a biography of Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett.
	gulib.lausun.georgetown.edu /dept/speccoll/fl/f207}3.htm (1509 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: A House and Its Head (New York Review Books Classics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		by Ivy Compton-Burnett, Francine Prose (Introduction) "SO THE CHILDREN are not down yet?" said Ellen Edgeworth..." (more)
		IVY COMPTON-BURNETT (1884–1969) was the seventh child of an English homeopath, and the first of seven additional children born to his second wife.
		She grew up in the coastal town of Hove and read classics at London University before returning home to help her widowed mother care for her younger siblings.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0940322641?v=glance (960 words)

	ureland.com » Arts » Literature » Authors » C » Compton-Burnett, Ivy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ivy Compton-Burnett - Life and works of the author.
		The Ivy Compton-Burnett Home Page - Examines the life and work of the English novelist Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884-1969).
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	Ivy Compton-Burnett's Complete List of Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A House and Its Head (New York Review Books Classics) by Ivy Compton-Burnett, Francine Prose
		The Present and the Past (Twentieth Century Classics S.) by Ivy Compton-Burnett
		A Father and His Fate (Twentieth-Century Classics) by Ivy Compton-Burnett
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	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Manservant and Maidservant (New York Review Books Classics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The goings-on in the servant' hall are the funniest part of the novel, with language and relationships and exercise of power mirroring what goes on above stairs.
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