In the age of the concentration camp, when from 1935 to 194… - Ivy Compton-Burnett

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In the age of the concentration camp, when from 1935 to 1947 or so, she wrote her very best novels, no writer did more to illumine the springs of human cruelty, suffering and bravery.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

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Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett DBE (5 June 1884 – 27 August 1969) was an award-winning English novelist.

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Alternative Names: I. Compton-Burnett • Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett

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Time has too much credit," said Bridget. "I never agree with the compliments paid to it. It is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.

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