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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Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons avg rating 3.91 — 1,792 ratings — published 1932 35 editions |
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Nightingale Wood by Stella Gibbons avg rating 3.80 — 10 ratings — published 1938 2 editions |
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Conference at Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons avg rating 3.17 — 12 ratings — published 1949 3 editions |
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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 by Stella Gibbons avg rating 3.33 — 3 ratings — published 1971 |
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Bassett by Stella Gibbons avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 1934 |
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Ticky by Stella Gibbons avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published 1984 |
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Starlight by Stella Gibbons avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1967 |
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The Weather at Tregulla by Stella Gibbons avg rating 2.00 — 2 ratings — published 1972 |
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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."
— Stella Gibbons
— Stella Gibbons
"Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful."
— Stella Gibbons (Cold Comfort Farm)
— Stella Gibbons (Cold Comfort Farm)
"I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot."
— Stella Gibbons (Cold Comfort Farm)
— Stella Gibbons (Cold Comfort Farm)
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