Compton-Burnett


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Compton-Burnett

(ˈkɒmptənbɜːˈnɛt; -ˈbɜːnɪt)
n
(Biography) Dame Ivy. 1884–1969, English novelist. Her novels include Men and Wives (1931) and Mother and Son (1955)
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A Dame Ivy Roger-Billington B Dame Ivy Dennis-Hammerton C Dame Ivy Thomas-Brown D Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett 4.
Ivy Compton-Burnett; 4 Aurora; 5 Red; 6 Vibraphone; 7 Dashiell Hammett;
Compton-Burnett and of two articles on Samuel Beckett.
Not at all inclined to borrow a book but feeling duty-bound to do so, the Queen selects an Ivy Compton-Burnett novel and later labors through it out of that same sense of duty.
James Compton-Burnett (1840-1901) (4) used homeopathic doses of the tuberculous sputum to treat 54 people, calling this medicine Bacillinum.
Young's novels within the context of works by Elizabeth Bowen, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Lettice Cooper, E.
In particular, increasing critical interest in complicating a map of modernism previously dominated by a monolithically masculine Joycean experimentalism has begun to draw more attention to the achievements of writers such as Rebecca West, Ivy Compton-Burnett and Bowen herself, whose writing occupies a hinterland between tradition and modernist experiment.
His readers encountered Sheridan and Shelley as often as Thomas Merton, Evelyn Waugh, and Ivy Compton-Burnett.