Stella Gibbons
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Stella Dorothea Gibbons was an English author, journalist, and poet. She established her reputation with her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm, which has been reprinted many times. Although she was activ
Stella Gibbons
Blue plaque on the North London Collegiate in Camden Town, which Gibbons attended 1915–1921.
The UCL building in Gower Street, London
The Vale of Health on Hampstead Heath, where Gibbons lived with her brothers after their parents' deaths
Cold Comfort Farm
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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 a
Stella Gibbons
…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. Although she was active as a writer for half a century, none of her later 22 novels or other literary…
First edition