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London, England. Occupation. Writer. Nationality. English. Period. 1930–1970. Stella Dorothea Gibbons (5 January 1902 – 19 December 1989) was an English author, journalist, and poet. She established her reputation with her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm (1932) which has been reprinted many times.
Stella Gibbons has 55 books on Goodreads with 131855 ratings. Stella Gibbons’s most popular book is Cold Comfort Farm.
Stella Gibbons. Stella Dorothea Gibbons was an English novelist, journalist, poet and short-story writer. Her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm, won the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize for 1933. A satire and parody of the pessimistic ruralism of Thomas Hardy, his followers and especially Precious Bain by Mary Webb -the "loam and lovechild" genre, as ...
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Stella Gibbons (born January 5, 1902, London, England—died December 19, 1989, London) was an English novelist and poet whose first novel, Cold Comfort Farm (1932), a burlesque of the rural novel, won for her in 1933 the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize and immediate fame.
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Cold Comfort Farm is a comic novel by English author Stella Gibbons, published in 1932. It parodies the romanticised, sometimes doom-laden accounts of rural life popular at the time, by writers such as Mary Webb.
Jan 17, 2014 · Fri 17 Jan 2014 12.29 EST. The novelist Stella Gibbons, who delighted a generation of girls with her rural satire Cold Comfort Farm, left behind two unpublished novels – including a ghost story...
Dec 28, 2018 · 4.1 5,903 ratings. See all formats and editions. When a well-educated young socialite in 1930s England is left orphaned and unable to support herself at age twenty-two, she moves in with her eccentric relatives on their farm. Print length. 243 pages. Language. English. Sticky notes. On Kindle Scribe. Publisher. Reading Essentials. Publication date.
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