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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 some called it, Cold Comfort Farm introduces a self-confident young ...
Notable Works: “Cold Comfort Farm”. 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. The daughter of a London doctor who ...
Cold Comfort Farm. Kate Beckinsale stars as Flora, a London society girl who moves to the country to live on a farm with her eccentric relatives in this heartwarming comedy full of charm and clever satire. 1,202 IMDb 7.2 1 h 45 min 1996.
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Recently orphaned, Flora ignores the sage advice of Mrs. Smiley (Joanna Lumley) and moves to the country to live on a decrepit farm with her eccentric relatives. This is a heartwarming comedy full of charm and clever satire. Kate Beckinsale stars as Flora Poste, a London society girl.
Recently orphaned, Flora ignores the sage advice of Mrs. Smiley (Joanna Lumley) and moves to the country to live on a decrepit farm with her eccentric relatives. This is a heartwarming comedy full of charm and clever satire. Kate Beckinsale stars as Flora Poste, a London society girl.
An adaption of Stella Gibbons's famous novel about a posh girl who, after the death of her estranged parents, moves in with some rustic uncouth poor relative...
