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  <name><![CDATA[Stella Gibbons]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Stella Dorothea Gibbons was an English novelist, journalist, poet and short-story writer.

Her first novel, &lt;i&gt;Cold Comfort Farm&lt;/i&gt;, 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 &quot;loam and lovechild&quot; genre, as some called it, &lt;i&gt;Cold Comfort Farm&lt;/i&gt; 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.


]]></about>    <gender>female</gender>    <born_at>01/05/1902</born_at>  <died_at>12/19/1989</died_at>  
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Cold Comfort Farm]]></title>
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  <published>1932</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Nightingale Wood]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Stella Gibbons]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.80</average_rating>
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  <published>1938</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Conference at Cold Comfort Farm]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Stella Gibbons]]></name>
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  <published>1949</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm and Other Stories]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Stella Gibbons]]></name>
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  <published>1972</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Here be Dragons]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Stella Gibbons]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.33</average_rating>
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  <published>1971</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Bassett]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Stella Gibbons]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
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  <published>1934</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Ticky]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Stella Gibbons]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.50</average_rating>
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  <published>1984</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Starlight]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Stella Gibbons]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
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  <published>1967</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Weather at Tregulla]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Stella Gibbons]]></name>
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  <published>1972</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Matchmaker]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Stella Gibbons]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.00</average_rating>
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  <published>1972</published>  
  
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