
Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett. (1884-1969), Novelist. Sitter in 12 portraits. One of the most important and challenging novelists of the period, Compton-Burnett's Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884-1969) was born in Pinner, Middlesex. She was educated privately, then at Holloway College, where she studied Classics. She wrote AbstractThe majority of existing studies of Ivy Compton-Burnett's comedy class her as either a 'camp' novelist, or a social satirist in whose L'