Stella Gibbons






Stella Gibbons

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born
January 05, 1902

died
December 19, 1989

gender
female

place of birth
The United Kingdom

genre
Children's Books, Literature & Fiction, Poetry


about this author

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.






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avg rating: 3.91 | 2,372 ratings | 474 reviews | 19 distinct works | 7 fans
Cold Comfort Farm Cold Comfort Farm
by Stella Gibbons
avg rating 3.91 — 1,792 ratings — published 1932
35 editions
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Nightingale Wood Nightingale Wood
by Stella Gibbons
avg rating 3.80 — 10 ratings — published 1938
2 editions
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Conference at Cold Comfort Far... Conference at Cold Comfort Farm
by Stella Gibbons
avg rating 3.17 — 12 ratings — published 1949
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Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm... Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm and Other Stories
by Stella Gibbons
avg rating 3.50 — 4 ratings — published 1972
2 editions
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Here be Dragons Here be Dragons
by Stella Gibbons
avg rating 3.33 — 3 ratings — published 1971
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Bassett Bassett
by Stella Gibbons
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 1934
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Ticky Ticky
by Stella Gibbons
avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published 1984
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Starlight Starlight
by Stella Gibbons
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1967
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The Weather at Tregulla The Weather at Tregulla
by Stella Gibbons
avg rating 2.00 — 2 ratings — published 1972
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The Matchmaker The Matchmaker
by Stella Gibbons
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 1972
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"Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy."
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"Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful."
Stella Gibbons (Cold Comfort Farm)
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"I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot."
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