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STELLA DOROTHEA GIBBONS, novelist, poet and short-story writer, was born in London in 1902. She went to the North London Collegiate School and studied journalism at University College London

STELLA DOROTHEA GIBBONS, novelist, poet and short-story writer, was born in London in 1902. She went to the North London Collegiate School and studied journalism at University College London. She then worked for ten years on various papers, including the Evening Standard. Her first publication was a book of poems, The Mountain Beast (1930), and her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm (1932), won the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize for 1933.

Cold Comfort Farm is a comic novel by English author Stella Gibbons, published in 1932. Following the death of her parents, the book's heroine, Flora Poste, finds she is possessed "of every art and grace save that of earning her own living".

Penguin Classics Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (Nov 28 2006). Her first publication was a book of poems The Mountain Beast (1930) and her first novel Cold Comfort Farm (1932) won the Femina Vie Heuruse Prize for 1933

Penguin Classics Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (Nov 28 2006). Her first publication was a book of poems The Mountain Beast (1930) and her first novel Cold Comfort Farm (1932) won the Femina Vie Heuruse Prize for 1933. Amongst her other novels are Miss Linsey and Pa (1936), Nightingale Wood (1938), Westwood (1946), Conference at Cold Comfort Farm (1959) and Beside the Pearly Water (1954).

For she struck suddenly, fiercely, upon the little bell that stood ever at her elbow (at least, it was at her elbow whenever she sat in that particular chair).

For she struck suddenly, fiercely, upon the little bell that stood ever at her elbow (at least, it was at her elbow whenever she sat in that particular chair) days, and had even hinted at to Seth, had suddenly matured. The shrill sound leapt through the tepid air of the room. It roused Judith, who was standing at the window looking with sodden eyes at the inexorable fecundity of the advancing spring. I mun go downstairs,’ said the old woman. Mothe. ou’re mistaken. Tes not the first o’ May nor the seventeenth o’ October

In Gibbons's classic tale, a resourceful young heroine finds herself in the gloomy, overwrought world .

In Gibbons's classic tale, a resourceful young heroine finds herself in the gloomy, overwrought world of a Hardy or Bronte novel and proceeds to organize everyone out of their romantic tragedies into the pleasures of normal life. Flora Poste, orphaned at 19, chooses to live with relatives at Cold Comfort Farm in Sussex, where cows are named Feckless, Aimless, Pointless, and Graceless, and the proprietors, the dour Starkadder family, are tyrannized by Flora's mysterious aunt, who controls the household from a locked room

Cold Comfort Farm, published in 1932, pokes gentle fun at the sub-genre of novels that dwells on misery and melodrama on English farms. Early versions of this genre include the works of Thomas Hardy and of course Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.

Cold Comfort Farm, published in 1932, pokes gentle fun at the sub-genre of novels that dwells on misery and melodrama on English farms. She’s a great fan of Jane Austen, and not at all a fan of getting a job

85 quotes from Cold Comfort Farm: ‘One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity . .No one can object to that. Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm. I saw something nasty in the woodshed.

85 quotes from Cold Comfort Farm: ‘One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity . She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple. That would be delightful,' agreed Flora, thinking how nasty and boring it would be. ― Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm. Mary, you know I hate parties.