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Dame Ivy in the media
News, interviews, recordings and publications relating to Dame Ivy and her novels.


How to buy one of Dame Ivy's books
You can buy Dame Ivy's books from good second hand book shops, online second hand stores and brand new from several suppliers. Pushkin Press republished four of Dame Ivy’s best novels four years ago. They include; A House & its Head Daughters & Sons Manservant & Maidservant More Women than Men You can find out more about these books and where to buy them from the link below. Most of Ivy’s novels can be bought on the following websites: Some Ivy novels are also published


The winner of the Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett Scholarship 2025
The Estate of Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett is delighted to announce that the winner of the scholarship is Dr Helen Charman. Portrait by Robin...


BBC Radio 4 production of Dame Ivy's Mother & Son
Sat 27th Apr 2002, 21:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM Mother & Son by Ivy Compton-Burnett Dramatised in two parts by Maria Aitken and broadcast on...


Announcing the Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett Scholarship
The Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett Estate is delighted to invite applications for a generous new scholarship to enable a student, independent...


Ivy is awarded an honorary degree by the University of Leeds
On 19th May 1960, Ivy attends the conferment of her Honorary Degree presented to her by The University of Leeds. Taken from the...


Listen to Dame Ivy speak in the Studs Terkel interview, 1962
The tape begins with Studs speaking with Christopher Sykes, a friend and producer. Studs is getting information how to behave and what to...


A Conversation between Ivy Compton-Burnett and Margaret Jourdain
The complete "conversation" originally appeared in Orion: A Miscellany, Vol. I. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1945. Compton-Burnett...


A BBC Interview with Ivy Compton-Burnett
Excerpts from the BBC Home Programme, 17 September 1960 interview with John Bowen, Bowen was a British author and playwright who wrote...
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