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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Ivy Compton-Burnett
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(1884–1969, DBE 1967) Novelist who with Pastors and Masters (1925) and Brothers and Sisters (1929) staked out the narrow but intense territory which she made characteristically her own – that of characters in a confined context, usually an Edwardian country house, playing out ruthless struggles of dominance and cruelty which are revealed almost entirely through dialogue.
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