XV. 1946–1951 ‘Truth is so Impossible. Something Has to be Done for It’

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents IX
3. Preface XI
4. Part One. Ivy When Young 1884–1919
5. Ι. Parents And Grandparents ‘Fools, Imbeciles, Idiots And Donkeys’ 3
6. II. 1884–1896 ‘I Was a Child of Passion’ 33
7. III. 1897–1901 ‘No Good Can Come of It’ 57
8. IV. James Compton Burnett ‘It Darkened the Day’ 80
9. V. Katharine Compton Burnett ‘A Figure in Tragedy’ 99
10. VI. 1902–1911 ‘Always Secret and Very Dark’ 128
11. VII. 1911–1915 ‘Are We Going to be Broad and Wicked?’ 169
12. VIII. 1915–1919 ‘It Quite Smashed My Life Up’ 210
13. Part Two. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart 1920–1969
14. IX. 1920–1929 ‘Not One of Those Modern People’ 257
15. Χ. 1930–1936 ‘Playing Second Fiddle’ 285
16. ΧΙ. Margaret Jourdain ‘No Point in Being too Greek’ 307
17. XII. Ivy ‘A Woman of Blameless Character’ 349
18. XIII. 1937–1939 ‘Well, and in Swaffham Bulbeck!’ 373
19. XIV. 1940–1945 ‘When War Casts its Shadow, I Find That I Recoil’ 396
20. XV. 1946–1951 ‘Truth is so Impossible. Something Has to be Done for It’ 428
21. XVI. 1952–1959 ‘The English Secret’ 460
22. XVII. 1960–1969 ‘One of Nature’s Dames’ 502
23. Appendices 549
24. Genealogical Tree 557
25. Notes 561
26. Select Bibliography 603
27. Index 609