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Stella Gibbons
| born |
January 05, 1902
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| died |
December 19, 1989 |
| gender |
female |
| place of birth |
London, The United Kingdom |
| genre |
Children's Books, Literature & Fiction, Poetry
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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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