“Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down.”

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

Ivy Compton-Burnett, quoted in Elizabeth Sprigge's The Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett (New York: G. Braziller, 1973) p. 79.
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English writer 1884–1969

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