Here is Dame Ivy on VW:
'a snob'.
'She was a bit malicious, you know - she'd say the most dreadful things about people. Of course, one does oneself. But one doesn't expect it of Virginia Woolf.
And on her novels:
'Well, is she really a novelist?'
'A lack of bone and a lack of character drawing.' 'I admire her use of words, I enjoy most of her work, but I wouldn't actually call her a good novelist.'But when Angus Wilson wrote a review claiming that Woolf's quality had been overestimated, she said:
'Ugly behaviour - I trust it will do him some harm'.
And here is Virginia Woolf on Dame Ivy:
'There is something bleached about Miss Compton-Burnett: like hair that has never had any colour in it'.
And in her diary in March 1937, Virginia reads a review comparing The Years and IC-B's Daughters and Sons, both of which have just been published:
'"Much inferior to the bitter truth and intense originality of Miss Compton-Burnett" Now this pain woke me at 4a.m. and I suffered acutely.'
Ivy Compton -Burnett - a list of her novels.
Ivy Compton -Burnett - -a typical novel.
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