Stella Gibbons

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born

in London, The United Kingdom

January 05, 1902

died

December 19, 1989

gender

female

genre

Children's Books, Literature & Fiction, Poetry

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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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Average rating: 3.88 · 15,324 ratings · 1,650 reviews · 35 distinct works · Similar authors

	Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, Lynne Truss (Introduction), Roz Chast (Illustrations) 3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 14,033 ratings — published 1932 — 46 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nightingale Wood 3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 528 ratings — published 1938 — 8 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Westwood 3.54 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 179 ratings — published 1946 — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm 3.29 of 5 stars 3.29 avg rating — 190 ratings — published 1940 — 11 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Conference At Cold Comfort Farm 3.3 of 5 stars 3.30 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 1959 — 6 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Starlight 3.45 of 5 stars 3.45 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1967 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Matchmaker 3.45 of 5 stars 3.45 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bachelor 3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1948 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bassett 3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1934 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Here Be Dragons 3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1971 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Cold Comfort Farm (3 books)
by Stella Gibbons
3.898164305158093 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 14,327 ratings

Quotes by Stella Gibbons

“One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown.”
― Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm

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“I saw something nasty in the woodshed.”
― Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm

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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 Hate Christmas: A Manifesto for the Modern Day Scrooge by Daniel Blythe

2 votes 33.3%

Kissing Christmas Goodbye by M.C. Beaton

2 votes 33.3%

A Proper Family Christmas by Jane Gordon-Cumming

1 vote 16.7%

Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

1 vote 16.7%

The Christmas Wedding by James Patterson

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