Hilary Mantel on the drawing-room depravity of Ivy Compton-Burnett
Hilary Mantel on the drawing-room depravity of Ivy Compton-Burnett As pitiless as Austen, Compton-Burnett’s tales of 1930s Brits behaving badly 'escaped the perils of popularity'. Now, they demand to be read 13 March 2021 • 11:00am 'Enough had happened to her, perhaps, for her to make up her mind what human beings were, or could be': Ivy Compton-Burnett Credit: Cecil Beaton/Conde Nast/Getty Written by Ivy Compton-Burnett in 1935, A House and Its Head is the merriest tale of human depravity you will ever read. It begins on Christmas Day, 1885: it is breakfast time, and having prepared pr...
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