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Stella Gibbons

Born

in London, The United Kingdom

January 05, 1902

Died

December 19, 1989

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: 3.86 · 47,410 ratings · 4,225 reviews · 45 distinct works • Similar authors

	Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, Lynne Truss (Introduction), Roz Chast (Illustrations) 3.91 avg rating — 41,939 ratings — published 1932 — 81 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 by Stella Gibbons, Sophie Dahl (Introduction) 3.67 avg rating — 1,584 ratings — published 1938 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 by Stella Gibbons, Lynne Truss (Introduction) 3.52 avg rating — 633 ratings — published 1946 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 3.36 avg rating — 1,031 ratings — published 1940 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 3.51 avg rating — 222 ratings — published 1967 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 3.16 avg rating — 419 ratings — published 1949 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 3.83 avg rating — 196 ratings — published 1944 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 3.48 avg rating — 207 ratings — published 1949 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 3.55 avg rating — 170 ratings — published 1956 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Pure Juliet 3.10 avg rating — 160 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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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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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“Well, when I am fifty-three or so I would like to write a novel as good as Persuasion but with a modern setting, of course. For the next thirty years or so I shall be collecting material for it. If anyone asks me what I work at, I shall say, 'Collecting material'. No one can object to that.”
― 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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Run off Poll - New School
We have a tie between two books for our July New School Classic. Please vote for your favourite choice. This poll will remain open for one week and close on the 7th of June 2018!

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, 159 pages, 1956

42 votes, 53.2%

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, 233 pages, 1932

37 votes, 46.8%

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