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| | Ivy Compton-Burnett | People in her life |
 | | In the reviews she wrote of Ivy's work, Bowen noted that Ivy was "not merely copying but actually continuing the Victorian novel" and "Miss Compton-Burnett, as ever, makes few concessions; she has not, like some of our writers, been scared or moralised into attempting to converge on the 'real' in life. |
 | | Ivy was mesmerized, Nancy scarcely less so by every detail from the conspicious tea-cosy hairdo to the neat bows on Ivy's fl, pointed shoes, and like ships in the night, they passed and parted in silence: 'I don't suppose they exchanged a word all evening,' said Madge. |
 | | Ivy constantly harassed Gollancz because her books did not sell as well as she wanted them to, and because he kept allowing her books to go out of print. |
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