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On the centre of this novel stands Harriet Haslam, the epitome of the maternal electricity figure, whose genuine but overpowering love dominates the novel and whose self-knowledge drives her into insanity. Even after her fatality Harriet is constantly on the dominate. Encircling this central figure are a bunch of marvelously realised personas - Sir Geoffrey Haslam, Harriet's man, an innocent self-deluder; Dominic Spong, a hypocrite whose platitudes do nearly conceal his powerful self-interest; Agatha Calkin whose benevolent maternalism almost hides the greediest of drives towards electricity; Female Hardistry, the most outrageously witty of most sophisticates; Camilla Christy, a loose female, dazzling, wonderful, and corrupt. Unlike Harriet Haslam, who will not spare herself the reality, others are happier using their lies and can never achieve Harriet's grandeur. Compton-Burnett was prompted by her liberal and unorthodox daddy, homeopath Dr Burnett, to prepare to learn classics at London college or university (neither Oxford nor Cambridge provided degrees to women at this time). She experienced dearly loved her daddy, who died without warning from a coronary attack in 1901 when she was sixteen. Her closest sibling died 3 years later, and Ivy Compton-Burnett continued to reduce three more of her more youthful siblings and her mom by enough time she was 35, something she could hardly bear to discuss, but constantly explored in her books. Compton-Burnett posted twenty books, the first while she was in her twenties, in 1911. However, the to begin her works to make use of her mature and startlingly original style was posted when she was forty, in 1925. Compton-Burnett's fiction deals with home situations in large homes which, to all or any intents and purposes, invariably seem Edwardian. She was known as a Dame Commander of the English Empire in 1967.
