COMPTON-BURNETT, Dame Ivy

(1884–1969), English author, who analyzed the family life of upper-class Edwardian England in a series of sophisticated, ironic novels in which vice goes unpunished and virtue unrewarded. Born in Pinner, in Middlesex, she graduated from the University of London. Her many novels are written almost completely in terse, polished dialogue and abound in melodramatic devices. They include Brothers and Sisters (1929), Parents and Children (1941), A God and His Gifts (1963), and The Last and the First (1971). In 1967 she was made a Dame of the British Empire.

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Ivy Compton-Burnett was born on Thursday, June 05, 1884 in Pinner and she was a famous novelist from England.

Life in Brief:
- Being born on Jun 05, Ivy was a Gemini.
- Her ethnicity: White.

She attended the BA Classics, Holloway College, University of London (in 1906).
Ivy dated Margaret Jourdain (girlfriend).
She died on Wednesday, August 27, 1969, in London; cause of death: unspecified.
Famous Why: Her novel Pastors and Masters.

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