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STELLA DOROTHEA GIBBONS, novelist, poet and short-story writer, was born in London in 1902. She went to the North London Collegiate School and studied journalism at University College London

STELLA DOROTHEA GIBBONS, novelist, poet and short-story writer, was born in London in 1902. She went to the North London Collegiate School and studied journalism at University College London. She then worked for ten years on various papers, including the Evening Standard. Her first publication was a book of poems, The Mountain Beast (1930), and her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm (1932), won the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize for 1933.

Cold Comfort Farm is a comic novel by English author Stella Gibbons, published in 1932. Following the death of her parents, the book's heroine, Flora Poste, finds she is possessed "of every art and grace save that of earning her own living".

Cold Comfort Farm Audio, Cassette – Audiobook, Unabridged. I feel Stella Gibbons was a kindred spirit. by Eileen Atkins (Author), Stella Gibbons (Author). If you think you do love both, then it is because you have only watched film versions of Jane Austen (which are often MIS-interpreted as Bronte stories, like the 2005 movie version of Pride & Prejudice).

Cold Comfort Farm is a 1995 British comedy film directed by John Schlesinger and produced by the BBC and Thames Television, an adaptation of Stella Gibbons' 1932 book of the same name.

Originally broadcast on 1 January 1995 on the BBC, it was Schlesinger's final film shot in his home country of Britain, and was picked up for theatrical release in North America through Gramercy Pictures, where it was a small success.

Cold Comfort Farm book. The cast is fantastic, some of the best actresses around including Eileen Atkins and Joanna Ab Fab Lumley, Stephen Fry and Ian McKellan. The attention to detail was stunning. Everything had been thought of - the lighting, colours and even face makeup of the women changed to reflect the lessening of the stranglehold Aunt Ada Doom had on the Starkadders Update I've just watched the film. It's even better than the book, by a long way. It's very affectionate, and very much played for gentle laughs.

In Gibbons's classic tale, a resourceful young heroine finds herself in the gloomy, overwrought world .

In Gibbons's classic tale, a resourceful young heroine finds herself in the gloomy, overwrought world of a Hardy or Bronte novel and proceeds to organize everyone out of their romantic tragedies into the pleasures of normal life. Flora Poste, orphaned at 19, chooses to live with relatives at Cold Comfort Farm in Sussex, where cows are named Feckless, Aimless, Pointless, and Graceless, and the proprietors, the dour Starkadder family, are tyrannized by Flora's mysterious aunt, who controls the household from a locked room

For she struck suddenly, fiercely, upon the little bell that stood ever at her elbow (at least, it was at her elbow whenever she sat in that particular chair).

For she struck suddenly, fiercely, upon the little bell that stood ever at her elbow (at least, it was at her elbow whenever she sat in that particular chair) days, and had even hinted at to Seth, had suddenly matured. The shrill sound leapt through the tepid air of the room. It roused Judith, who was standing at the window looking with sodden eyes at the inexorable fecundity of the advancing spring. I mun go downstairs,’ said the old woman. Mothe. ou’re mistaken. Tes not the first o’ May nor the seventeenth o’ October

Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons Flora Poste has been recently . Cold Comfort Farm - Eileen Atkins, Kate Beckinsale, and Sheila Burrell. Cold Comfort Farm-the book by Stella Gibbons is hilarious and the film brings the book to life.

Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons Flora Poste has been recently bereaved of her parents. What others are saying. Ian McKellen's monologue about no butter in hell is very, very funny. This was really fun, although slight; the British accents give this a gravity it would not have had with American actors.

Cold Comfort Farm, published in 1932, pokes gentle fun at the sub-genre of novels that dwells on misery and melodrama on English farms. Early versions of this genre include the works of Thomas Hardy and of course Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. In Cold Comfort Farm, our heroine, Flora, becomes an orphan and decides to sponge off of her relatives instead of getting a job.