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Stella Gibbons


Born
in London, The United Kingdom
January 05, 1902

Died
December 19, 1989

Genre
Children's Books, Literature & Fiction, Poetry


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 woman, quite self-consciously modern, pragmatic and optimistic, into the grim, fate-bound and dark rural scene those novelists tended to portray. ...more

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Average rating: 3.84 · 64,480 ratings · 6,389 reviews · 59 distinct works • Similar authors
Cold Comfort Farm
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3.88 avg rating — 55,079 ratings — published 1932 — 153 editions
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Nightingale Wood
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3.70 avg rating — 1,849 ratings — published 1938 — 22 editions
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Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm
3.33 avg rating — 1,638 ratings — published 1940 — 28 editions
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Westwood
3.56 avg rating — 859 ratings — published 1946 — 15 editions
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The Woods in Winter
3.88 avg rating — 509 ratings — published 1970 — 11 editions
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Conference at Cold Comfort ...
3.14 avg rating — 616 ratings — published 1949
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Starlight
3.58 avg rating — 394 ratings — published 1967 — 7 editions
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The Bachelor
3.83 avg rating — 317 ratings — published 1944 — 15 editions
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The Matchmaker
3.54 avg rating — 293 ratings — published 1949 — 12 editions
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Here Be Dragons
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Cold Comfort Farm Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm Conference at Cold Comfort ...
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“One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown.”
― Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm
tags: books, humour
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“Well, when I am fifty-three or so I would like to write a novel as good as Persuasion but with a modern setting, of course. For the next thirty years or so I shall be collecting material for it. If anyone asks me what I work at, I shall say, 'Collecting material'. No one can object to that.”
― Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm
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“I saw something nasty in the woodshed.”
― Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm
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Polls

April 2018 New School Poll

 
  65 votes, 18.3%

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, 181 pages, 1945
 
  41 votes, 11.5%

 
  34 votes, 9.6%

The Story of My Life by Helen Keller, 240 pages, 1902
 
  33 votes, 9.3%

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, 233 pages, 1932
 
  27 votes, 7.6%

Blindness by José Saramago, 326 pages, 1995
 
  26 votes, 7.3%

 
  21 votes, 5.9%

Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, 232 pages, 1938
 
  21 votes, 5.9%

Save Me the Waltz by Zelda Fitzgerald, 225 pages, 1932
 
  21 votes, 5.9%

Native Son by Richard Wright, 504 pages, 1940
 
  17 votes, 4.8%

Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain, 688 pages, 1933
 
  11 votes, 3.1%

The Ambassadors by Henry James, 528 pages, 1903
 
  10 votes, 2.8%

At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien, 239 pages, 1939
 
  10 votes, 2.8%

The Passion by Jeanette Winterson, 176 pages, 1987
 
  9 votes, 2.5%

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara, 345 pages, 1974
 
  4 votes, 1.1%

 
  3 votes, 0.8%

Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe, 644 pages, 1929
 
  2 votes, 0.6%

355 total votes
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