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Compton-Burnett

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Compton-Burnett
Dame Ivy. 1884--1969, English novelist. Her novels include Men and Wives (1931) and Mother and Son (1955)


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Not at all inclined to borrow a book but feeling duty-bound to do so, the Queen selects an Ivy Compton-Burnett novel and later labors through it out of that same sense of duty.
James Compton-Burnett (1840-1901) (4) used homeopathic doses of the tuberculous sputum to treat 54 people, calling this medicine Bacillinum.
That first day in the library van, the queen looks at the books ranged on the shelves and sees a name she knows: Ivy Compton-Burnett.
 
 
 
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