[Vwoolf] Ivy Compton-Burnett

[Laurie Reiche]

I'll have to re-read her. But there she was in my beloved collection of the Virago Modern Classics editions from the 70 -80s I think it was…Cheers! Laurie (I hope these attachments go through!)









On Apr 1, 2015, at 7:37 PM, Jean Mallinson <annaj at telus.net> wrote:

> Interesting: I just finished reading an interview with Hilary Mantel (Paris Review 212)in which she says "Ivy Compton-Burnett is the love of my life". She goes on to say "She's like nobody else. She's magic".  I haven't read much of her work but I would say she is unlike any of the three fiction writers you mention. She tells a story almost entirely through dialogue, often without phrases introducing the speakers.  You listen to her characters talk.
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> On 4/1/2015 5:19 PM, Steve Posin wrote:
>> A friend who knows I am interested in VW asked whether I had ever  read  Ivy Compton-Burnett whom he is reading.
>> I had to  confess that I did not and knew nothing about her.
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>> What do Woolfians  think of her?  Is she considered a modernist,   a feminist?
>> In the league of Jean Rhys? Eliz Bowen? Katherine Mansfield?
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>> Any info, thought would be most appreciated.
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