Ivy Compton-Burnett

Ivy Compton-Burnett (5 June 1884 – 27 August 1969) was an English novelist ('Cumpton-Burnit'). Her work is characterised by extensive use of dialogue, and concentrates on family (and sometimes school) life in roughly the Edwardian era.

Complete Bibliography

• Dolores ('something one wrote as a girl', rejected by the author, 1911)
• Pastors and Masters (1925)
• Brothers and Sisters (1929)
• Men and Wives (1931)
• More Women Than Men (1933)
• A House and Its Head (1935)
• Daughters and Sons (1937)
• A Family and a Fortune (1939)
• Parents and Children (1941)
• Elders and Betters (1944)
• Manservant and Maidservant (1947; Bullivant and the Lambs in the United States)
• Two Worlds and Their Ways (1949)
• Darkness and Day (1951)
• The Present and the Past (1953)
• Mother and Son (1955)
• A Father and His Fate (1957)
• A Heritage and Its History (1959)
• The Mighty and Their Fall (1961)
• A God and His Gifts (1963)
• The Last and the First (posthumous, 1971)