[So anti-fascist activist Natalia Ginzburg, BOTD in 1916, approached family relationships, in her novels, under the influence of Ivy! And, she played Mary of Bethany in Pasolini's IL VANGELO SECONDO MATTEO (1964)!]

[LA SUBSTITUTION (1973) is an obscure French TV movie adapted from Ivy Compton-Burnett's "Elders and Betters." The last and the first!]

[It's true! In Brighton you can ride a bus named after Ivy Compton-Burnett! Or Dusty Springfield. Or Daisy and Violet Hilton. Or Aubrey Beardsley!]

history.buses.co.uk/history/flee...

[Sounds good to us! "Maude Hutchins writes like a lascivious I. Compton-Burnett." --Time]

[Ivy Speaks! Recorded interview with Studs Terkel.]

studsterkel.wfmt.com/programs/ivy...

[Happy birthday to John Waters!]

[“Gorey was a big Ivy Compton-Burnett fan, whereas (Frank) O'Hara was more inclined to C. Day-Lewis." --Ascending Peculiarity. Edward St. John Gorey was born 100 years ago today.]

[According to Violet Hunt's diary, Ernest Thesiger proposed marriage to novelist Radclyffe Hall, but was refused.]

[Ivy's friend Ernest Thesiger was born January 15, 1879, and died January 14, 1961.] ernestthesiger.org

[The last and the first! As far as I can tell, this adaptation aired on French television in 1973 and hasn’t been seen since.]

"I am not good at tinkering with the truth. If it tumbles out, whole and plain, I cannot be taken to account." [Nita Klein as Anna and Louise Carleti as Jessica in LA SUBSTITUTION (1973), a film of Ivy Compton-Burnett's "Elders and Betters."]

[Yeah, yeah, Popeye and Tintin have finally been liberated, but they don’t tell you about the Ivy Compton-Burnett novels entering the public domain.]

[Born 140 years ago today!]

Yes, he is good. He is so good one wonders why he isn't better.

[Ivy on Anthony Trollope, BOTD in 1815.]

[My shelf: Jane Austen (BOTD in 1775) action figure, cats, Dandelion Wine signed to me by Ray (RIP) at Mystery and Imagination Bookshop in Glendale (RIP), John Silence, Who Fears the Devil, Girls of the Pansy Patrol by May Wynne, How Nell Scored by Bessie Marchant.]

I do not think my books have any real likeness to hers. I think that there is possibly some likeness between our minds. [On Jane Austen, BOTD in 1775]