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Abstract
Ivy Compton Burnett (1884-1969) (1) is a twentiethcentury
British novelist and a novelist of the pre-war
world whose effect on the development of the English· novel
is great. To my mind, Ivy Compton- Burnett has not yet,
received adequate critical attention. So far as I know
no single book or thesis has yet been written about her
works. Critics and historians of the English novel refer
to her ei ther in passing or
decadents. Arnold Kettle is a
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1 Ivy Compton-Burnett, the daughter of doctor James Compton
Burnett and Katharine Rees, was born on 5 June 1884 at
Pinner,. Middlesex. Her father had five children from his
first marriage; Ivy was the eldest of seven by his second
wife, so that she was brought up in a large family. Ivy
was educated first at home for she learned the literary
classics, Greek and Latin with her brothers’ tutors. She
then broke away from the closed circle of family life to
go to Royal Holloway College for Women where she studied
classics. In 1960, the University of Leeds awarded her
an honorary Doctor of Letters degree. In 1967, she became
Dame Commander of the British Empire, and the following
year received the companion of Literature title from the
Royal Society of Literature. The last years of her life
were often solitary for many of her close friends were
dying or already dead. living alone with her house keeper,
Ivy prefered to see visitors singly, and she grew increasingly
eccentric. She died on 27 August 1969 after an attack
of bronchitis.