![]() 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. Sat 19.05 EDT I n 1930 a young journalist called Stella Gibbons started a new job on the Lady, 'the magazine for gentlewomen', where she applied her versatility as a writer to every. Her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm, won the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize for 1933. Novels Bassett (1934) Enbury Heath (1935) Nightingale Wood (1938) My American (1939) The Rich House (1941) Ticky (1943) The Bachelor (1944) Westwood (. Stella Dorothea Gibbons was an English novelist, journalist, poet and short-story writer. 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. Her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm, won the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize for 1933. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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