Ivy Compton-Burnett/Definition
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(pronounced 'Cumpton-Burnit', 5 June 1884 – 27 August 1969) An English novelist whose work is propelled by almost perpetual dialogue, and concentrates on family (and sometimes school) life in roughly the Edwardian era.