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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spurling, Hilary, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1986]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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

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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-88478-8

OCLC:

1100455487