Talk:Ivy Compton-Burnett

I. Compton-Burnett?
Gender-neutral pseudonym? Published as I. (rather than Ivy) Compton Burnett? Please have a look at Image:Penguin editions.JPG and explain to me what I am missing here. &lt;KF&gt; 01:15, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Good point. She only became 'Ivy' in paperback. See first paragraph for my adjustment - Rothorpe 23:22, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

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IPA skewed towards rhotic?
It seems the IPA template is skewed towards rhotic. Trying to render 'Burnett' in ICB's non-rhotic British pronunciation, I'm finding it impossible to avoid an 'r' after the 'ɜ'. Compare |b|ɜ:|n|ɪ|t| with how it comes out:. (This must be why 'Compton' was included alone in the first place.) I'll have to discard the template leaving just the IPA letters. Or is there a better way around it? Rothorpe (talk) 02:13, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

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Emphasis
The debate about her family’s class background seems to be excessively detailed for its limited notability. Meanwhile you say that she successfully managed the considerable family fortune after her mother's death. We don’t hear where this fortune came from. Valetude (talk) 19:33, 29 June 2019 (UTC)


 * The relevance of the family class background, it seems to me, lies primarily in the subject matter of Compton-Burnett's works and the manner in which she was pleased to present herself; as the article gives, it was assumed both by her acquaintances and the reading public that she was of a gentry background and thus held special insight into the lives of the people of whom she wrote, which was not in fact the case. The 'considerable family fortune' was the result of Dr James Compton-Burnett's medical work (he being author also of twenty-six medical books); the Rees family were also of the well-off (upper-)middle-class, Katherine Compton-Burnett's father Rowland Rees being a civil engineer and surveyor, architect (responsible for the construction of all the 'best houses' of Dover from 1850-1860 per Spurling), J.P. and alderman as well as Mayor of Dover. Details of this family money are given in Spurling (vol. 1, p. 207); it constituted both parents' estates and largely consisted of tenanted property which required management. Thank you for raising these points; I hope the additions made to the article as a consequence will be useful to future readers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.2.127.126 (talk) 00:36, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Also, for the record, I checked the parents' probates: James Compton-Burnett's estate was about £67,000, and his wife's about £21,000; the value of £88,000 at the time of the latter's death is around £6.8 million in 2019. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.2.127.126 (talk) 00:42, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

Dame

 * Bmcln1. I'm afraid you don't give examples. To confirm my words, it is enough to follow the link to the Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire category at the bottom of the article. In all articles about these Dames, the beginning goes exactly with " Dame...", except for those cases when the person has a higher title: for example, the Baroness; or this person received this award without being a citizen of the United Kingdom (for example, Angelina Jolie received DCMG, which gives the same title of a Dame, but she does not have British citizenship and does not use the title). We don't have a consensus, and I think it's like an edit warring right now.--Peter Philim (talk) 11:42, 13 August 2021 (UTC)