Bullivant and the Lambs (Masterplots: Revised Category Edition, British Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Ivy Compton-Burnett
- First Published: 1947
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social satire
- Time of Work: Indefinitely between 1900 and 1914
- Setting: An English mansion occupied by Horace Lamb, his relatives, children, and servants
- Principal Characters: Horace Lamb, Mortimer Lamb, Bullivant, George, Mrs. Selden, Charlotte Lamb, Emilia Lamb, Sarah Lamb, Marcus Lamb, Jasper Lamb, Tamasin Lamb, Avery Lamb, Gideon Doubleday, Gertrude Doubleday, Magdalen Doubleday, Miss Buchanan
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire, Character study
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Parents and children, Nineteenth century, Social issues, England or English people, Upper classes, Adultery, Servants, Houses, mansions, or manors
- Locales: England
The eleventh of Ivy Compton-Burnett’s novels shows her remarkable ability to dramatize fully the complicated relationships that arise in a family where master, servants, children, and relatives know nearly everything about one another and their accepted interconnections. BULLIVANT AND THE LAMBS, published in England as MANSERVANT AND MAIDSERVANT, is at the same time the novel that represents best Compton-Burnett’s ability to create children, servants, and their masters involved melodramatically in a meaningful interpretation of life’s inevitable strange turnings and...
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