Stella Gibbons
Author · 26 books
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.
Books
The Matchmaker
1949
The weather at Tregulla
1962
The Woods in Winter
1970
The Yellow Houses
2016
Nightingale Wood
1938
Ticky
1943
Starlight
1967
Here Be Dragons
1956
The Bachelor
1944
Conference at Cold Comfort Farm
1949
Bassett
1934
The Snow-woman
1969
Cold Comfort Farm
1932
Westwood
1946
Cold Comfort Farm
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation
2016
The Charmers
1965
A Pink Front Door
1959
Pure Juliet
2016
Hermanas raras
Cuentos fantásticos y pulp de las reinas del escalofrío
2025
Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm
1940
White Sand and Grey Sand
1958
Cold Comfort Farm
2006
Enbury Heath
1935
The Swiss Summer
1951
My American
1939
The Rich House
1941
