There’s not much to say. I haven’t been at all deedy.
Ivy Compton Burnett Quotes
It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement. I cannot be asked to miss it in my weak state. I should only fret.
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| Birth: | 5th June, 1884 |
| Death: | 27th August, 1969 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Novelist |
About
Ivy Compton Burnett was born in Pinner, England. She was an English novelist, published in the original editions as I. Compton-Burnett. She earned a BA degree in Classics from Holloway College, University of London in 1906. She wrote several novels include: Pastors and Masters, More Women Than Men, A House and Its Head, Daughters and Sons, Manservant and Maidservant, Darkness and Day, The Present and the Past, A father and his fate, A Heritage and Its History, A God and His Gifts, and The Last and the First. She was awarded the 1955 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for her novel Mother and Son.
