Ivy : : The Life of I. Compton-Burnett / / Hilary Spurling.
A biography of the life and family of Ivy Compton-Burnett, a 20th century British novelist.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1986] ©1986 |
| Year of Publication: | 1986 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- 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