One of the most prolific writers of this century, I. Compton-Burnett (as she signed her works) produced twenty novels during a fifty-year writing career that extended from 1911 (with the publication o...
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Critical Essay by Malcolm Pittock
[The] non-conversational parts of [Compton-Burnett's prose] have the brevity and quality of stage directions….
The dialogue itself has certain obvio...
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Critical Essay by Malcolm Bradbury
It was in Pastors and Masters in 1925 that [Compton-Burnett's] main work began, and you might say that like William Faulkner with Sartoris she discovered a u...
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Critical Essay by R. J. Macsween
Ivy Compton-Burnett seems to be one of the undoubted classics to have emerged from the modern period. (p. 25)
Like anyone else, she had to learn her craft by exper...
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Critical Essay by Julian Mitchell
The novels of I Compton-Burnett, as she always styled herself on the title-page, are quite unlike anyone else's, and she was proud of it—indeed, she wa...
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Critical Essay by Robert Liddell
The world that [Miss Compton-Burnett and Jane Austen] depict is normally a limited one, the families at the big house, the rectory, and one or two other houses in an ...
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Critical Essay by Edward Sackville-west
The family…. The disintegrating effect of two wars has tended to drive novelists away from the direct treatment of this subject. For Miss Compton-Burnet...
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Critical Essay by Ivy Compton-burnett
I think it's the natural way for me to write, the way I write naturally, but I think in some of the books, especially in some of the earlier ones, there i...
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Critical Essay by Constance Lewis
The novels of Ivy Compton-Burnett present intriguing problems of content and structure. They are distinctly not popular novels; yet, like many popular novels, they a...
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I(vy) Compton-Burnett
Critical Essay by Malcolm Pittock
