More Women Than Men by Ivy Compton-Burnett
The electrically witty story of a headmistress struggling to retain an iron grip on the hidden plots and allegiances in her girls' school, reissued for the first time in decades.
'As much a part of our great 20th-century literary heritage as Virginia Woolf or Elizabeth Bowen.. She writes wonderfully, giving her often ghastly characters mordantly witty lines worthy of Dorothy Parker or Oscar Wilde' - Guardian
'Her scalpel-sharp pen performed startling surgery on the accepted concept of genteel family life' - Daily Telegraph
'Her scalpel-sharp pen performed startling surgery on the accepted concept of genteel family life' - Daily Telegraph
Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884-1969) was one of twentieth-century England's most original and admired writers. The seventh of thirteen children, she was raised in Richmond and Hove and studied Classics at Royal Holloway College. Her family was struck by repeated disasters starting with the death of her father in 1901; Compton-Burnett eventually took charge of the household until it was broken up during the First World War.
Compton-Burnett lived alone in London until she was joined in 1919 by Margaret Jourdain, a writer and furniture expert who was to be her lifelong companion. Aside from a disavowed early novel, Compton-Burnett published eighteen highly acclaimed works of fiction in her lifetime, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was made a Dame shortly before her death.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781911590415 |
| ISBN 10 | 1911590413 |
| Title | More Women Than Men |
| Author | Ivy Compton-Burnett |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pushkin Press |
| Year published | 2021-05-27 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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