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Among her themes are mony, power, ageing and inheritance.  Incest is revealed, and she was one of the first novelists to deal with homosexuality.
Among her themes are mony, power, ageing and inheritance.  Incest is revealed, and she was one of the first novelists to deal with homosexuality.


There is also a pronounced upstairs-downstairs angle, with powerful butlers and cooks; and many impoverished governesses.  This refelcsts the world that Ivy grew up in in Hove, on the southern English coast.
There is also a pronounced upstairs-downstairs angle, with powerful butlers and cooks lording it over maids and servant boys; and impoverished governesses.  This refelcsts the world that Ivy grew up in in Hove, on the southern English coast.


==Complete Bibliography ==
==Complete Bibliography ==

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Ivy Compton-Burnett (pronounced 'Cumpton-Burnit', 5 June 188427 August 1969) was an English novelist. Her work is characterised by extensive use of dialogue, and concentrates on family (and sometimes school) life in roughly the Edwardian era. Many of her novels turn on unexpected crimes or misdemeanours that are uncovered, such as illegitimacy and even murder, though her books have no detectives.

Among her themes are mony, power, ageing and inheritance. Incest is revealed, and she was one of the first novelists to deal with homosexuality.

There is also a pronounced upstairs-downstairs angle, with powerful butlers and cooks lording it over maids and servant boys; and impoverished governesses. This refelcsts the world that Ivy grew up in in Hove, on the southern English coast.

Complete Bibliography