Margins
548 Market St PMB 65688, San Francisco California 94104-5401 USA
© 2026 Paratext Inc. All rights reserved
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.
1949
1962
1970
2016
1938
1943
1967
1956
1944
1949
1934
1969
1932
1946
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation
2016
1965
1959
2016
Cuentos fantásticos y pulp de las reinas del escalofrío
2025
1940
1958
2006
1935
1951
1939
1941