Burkhart, Charles. Herman and Nancy and Ivy: Three Lives in Art. London: Gollancz, 1977. Essays on Herman Schrijver, Nancy Cunard, and Ivy Compton-Burnett.

Greig, Cicely. Ivy Compton-Burnett: A Memoir. London: Garnstone Press, 1972. By Ivy Compton-Burnett's longtime typist. A warm and insightful memoir.

Liddell, Robert. Elizabeth and Ivy. London: P. Owen, 1986. Liddell's friendships with the novelist Elizabeth Taylor and Ivy Compton-Burnett.

"Obituary: Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett: Novelist Who Explored the Relationships of Family Life," London Times, 28 August 1969, p. 8.

Sprigge, Elizabeth. The Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett. London: Gollancz, 1973 and New York: G. Braziller, 1973.

-------. Ivy When Young: The Early Life of I. Compton-Burnett, 1884-1919. London: Gollancz, 1974 and London: Allison & Busby, 1983.

-------. Secrets of a Woman's Heart: The Later Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett, 1920-1969. London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 1984.

Baldanza, Frank. Ivy Compton-Burnett. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1964. Number 11 in Twayne's English Authors Series. Insightful and well-written.

Bhagyalakshmi, J. Ivy Compton-Burnett and Her Art. Delhi, India: Mittal Publications, 1986.

Bowen, Elizabeth, Collected Impressions. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. Includes remarks on Compton-Burnett's Parents and Children and Elders and Betters.

Burkhart, Charles, ed. The Art of Ivy Compton-Burnett: A Collection of Critical Essays. London: Gollancz, 1972.

-------. I. Compton-Burnett, London: Gollancz, 1965.

-------, guest ed. "Ivy Compton-Burnett Issue," Twentieth Century Literature, vol. 25, no. 2 (Summer 1979). Contains literary criticism, a memoir by Ivy's friend Hester Marsden-Smedley, and a transcript of a BBC interview with Ivy.

Compton-Burnett, I., and Jourdain, M. "A Conversation," in Orion: A Miscellany, Vol. I. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1945. A fascinating written "conversation" about Ivy's novels, which Compton-Burnett and Jourdain later read for the BBC. This is Compton-Burnett's only work of nonfiction. An excerpt appears in The Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett by Elizabeth Sprigge (London: Gollancz, 1973) and is reproduced in its entirely in The Art of Ivy Compton-Burnett by Charles Burkhart (London: Gollancz, 1972).

Gentile, Kathy Justice. Ivy Compton-Burnett. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. This feminist reassessment of Ivy Compton-Burnett argues that her novels "probably comprise our literature's most searching and perspicacious inquiry into the myths, maxims, manners and mores that constitute civilized society."

Grylls, R. Glynn. I. Compton-Burnett. London: Longmans, 1971.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford. I. Compton-Burnett. Bibliographical Series of Supplements to British Book News. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1951. This book infuriated Compton-Burnett, who said of its author, "She works in such haste that her words cease to have a meaning, and a mind seems to be going to waste."

Kiernan, Robert F. Frivolity Unbound: Six Masters of the Camp Novel, Thomas Love Peacock, Max Beerbohm, Ronald Firbank, E. F. Benson, P. G. Wodehouse, Ivy Compton-Burnett. New York: Continuum Publishing Co., 1990.

Liddell, Robert, The Novels of I. Compton-Burnett. London: Gollancz, 1955.

-------. A Treatise on the Novel. London: Jonathan Cape, 1947. Contains a study of Ivy Compton-Burnett.

Mallet, Richard. Literary Upshots. London: Jonathan Cape, 1951. Contains a parody of Compton-Burnett's writing.

McCarthy, Mary. The Writing on the Wall and Other Literary Essays. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1970. Includes two essays on Ivy Compton-Burnett. Recommended.

Nevius, Blake. Ivy Compton-Burnett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1970. Number 47 in the Columbia Essays on Modern Writers series.

Newby, P. H. The Novel 1945-1950. Bibliographical Series of Supplements to British Book News. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1951. Pamphlet of essays on and photographs of Ivy Compton-Burnett, Graham Greene, Elizabeth Bowen, and others.

Olejniczak, Verena. Subjektivität als Dialog: Philosophische Dimensionen der Fiktion: Zur Modernität Ivy Compton-Burnetts. Munich: W. Fink, 1994.

Powell, Lady Violet. A Compton-Burnett Compendium, London: Heinemann, 1973.

Ramakrishna Rao, Vallabhaneni. Ivy Compton-Burnett: A Critical Study. Waltair, India: Andhra University Press, 1974.

Sackville-West, Edward. Inclinations. London: Secker & Warburg, 1949 and New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949. Contains an analysis of Ivy Compton-Burnett's work.

Sarkar, Rabindra Nath. Ivy Compton-Burnett: A Trend in English Fiction. Calcutta: Firma KLM, 1979.

West, Anthony. Principles and Persuasions. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1957. Contains an essay on Compton-Burnett's work that Frank Baldanza calls "a brilliantly coruscating attack, managed with high intelligence."

Bowen, John, "An Interview with Ivy Compton-Burnett" (BBC Home Programme, 17 September 1960), Twentieth Century Literature, 25, no. 2 (Summer 1979), pp. 165-72.

Kermode, Frank. "The House of Fiction: Interviews with Seven English Novelists," Partisan Review, 30 (Spring 1963), pp. 61-82.

Millgate, Michael, "Interview with Miss Compton-Burnett," Review of English Literature, III (October 1962). Also appears in The Art of I. Compton-Burnett, edited by Charles Burkhart (London: Gollancz, 1972)

Mitchell, Julian. A Family and a Fortune: A Play. From the novel by Ivy Compton-Burnett. London and New York: French, 1976.