At once the strangest and most marvelous of Ivy Compton-Burnett's fictions, Manservant and Maidservant has for its subject the domestic life of Horace Lamb, sadist, skinflint, and tyrant. But it is when Horace undergoes an altogether unforeseeable change of heart that the real difficulties begin. Ivy speaks! Critics on Ivy Compton-Burnett. People in her life. Obituary. Introduction to Manservant and Maidservant. Introduction to A House and Its Head. Mistress of the Country House. Bibliography. Resources. Feedback: The 20 Novels of Ivy Compton-Burnett "Miss Compton-Burnett is totally unlike any other novelist. Ivy Compton-Burnett ( to London) wrote her first novel in and her last was published (after her death) in Her most famous and most still read work, Manservant and Maidservant was published after WWII in To me she should be classified as a "between the wars" British writer even though she her work extends well beyond that era because her sensibilities are really quite.
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Ivy Compton-Burnett ( to London) wrote her first novel in and her last was published (after her death) in Her most famous and most still read work, Manservant and Maidservant was published after WWII in To me she should be classified as a "between the wars" British writer even though she her work extends well beyond that era because her sensibilities are really quite Edwardian. At once the strangest and most marvelous of Ivy Compton-Burnett's fictions, Manservant and Maidservant has for its subject the domestic life of Horace Lamb, sadist, skinflint, and tyrant. But it is when Horace undergoes an altogether unforeseeable change of heart that the real difficulties begin. MANSERVANT AND MAIDSERVANT IVY COMPTON-BURNETT (–)was the seventh child of an English homeopath, and the first of seven additional chil-dren born to his second wife. She grew up in the coastal town of Hove and read classics at London University before return-ing home to help her widowed mother care for her younger siblings.
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