Ivy Compton-Burnett
Summary
Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, DBE (5 June 1884 – 27 August 1969) was an English novelist, published (in the original hardback editions) as I. Compton-Burnett. She was awarded the 1955 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for her novel Mother and Son.The daughter of a well-known homeopathic doctor, Compton-Burnett (pronounced 'Cumpton-Burnit') grew up in Hove and London. Her father had twelve children by two wives and Ivy's mother (the second wife) sent all her stepchildren away to boarding school as soon as possible.In the author blurb of the old Penguin editions of her novels there was a paragraph written by Compton-Burnett herself:"I have had such an uneventful life that there is little information to give.
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Mr Kenneth Adam, director-elect of BBC Television, says that his great disappointment in his job is that he has not found one single woman star – "no woman of the calibre of Dimbleby or Michelmore, no Tony Hancock or Sir Brian Horrocks". This, he assures me, is not for want of trying.
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