Ivy Compton-Burnett

Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884–1969) was an English novelist renowned for her dialogue-driven novels exploring dysfunctional family dynamics in Victorian and Edwardian upper-middle-class households, with notable works including Men and Wives (1931), Manservant and Maidservant (1947), and Mother and Son (1955). She won the 1955 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Mother and Son, received an honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Leeds in 1960, and was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1967.