Ivy : : The Life of I. Compton-Burnett / / Hilary Spurling.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Spurling, Hilary,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1986]; ©1986
• Year of Publication: 1986
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Part One. Ivy When Young 1884-1919 --; Ι. Parents And Grandparents 'Fools, Imbeciles, Idiots And Donkeys' --; II. 1884-1896 'I Was a Child of Passion' --; III. 1897-1901 'No Good Can Come of It' --; IV. James Compton Burnett 'It Darkened the Day' --; V. Katharine Compton Burnett 'A Figure in Tragedy' --; VI. 1902-1911 'Always Secret and Very Dark' --; VII. 1911-1915 'Are We Going to be Broad and Wicked?' --; VIII. 1915-1919 'It Quite Smashed My Life Up' --; Part Two. Secrets of a Woman's Heart 1920-1969 --; IX. 1920-1929 'Not One of Those Modern People' --; Χ. 1930-1936 'Playing Second Fiddle' --; ΧΙ. Margaret Jourdain 'No Point in Being too Greek' --; XII. Ivy 'A Woman of Blameless Character' --; XIII. 1937-1939 'Well, and in Swaffham Bulbeck!' --; XIV. 1940-1945 'When War Casts its Shadow, I Find That I Recoil' --; XV. 1946-1951 'Truth is so Impossible. Something Has to be Done for It' --; XVI. 1952-1959 'The English Secret' --; XVII. 1960-1969 'One of Nature's Dames' --; Appendices --; Genealogical Tree --; Notes --; Select Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231884785; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/spur91650
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Hilary Spurling.

A biography of the life and family of Ivy Compton-Burnett, a 20th century British novelist.