Worked as a decoder for the British United Press spent ten years in Fleet Street working on various jobs-literary and drama criticism, fashion writing, special reporting, while doing some creative writing of her own published first novel Cold Comfort Farm (1932), which brought her instant fame over the next 40 years, wrote 25 novels, together with four volumes of poetry, and three collections of short stories (none, however, were to achieve the same success).
Born Stella Dorothea Gibbons on January 5, 1902, in London, England died in December 1989 at age 87 eldest child of Telford Charles Gibbons (a north London doctor) and Maud Williams educated at home by governesses until age 13, when she attended the North London Collegiate School took journalism course at University College, London married Allan Bourne Webb (an actor and opera singer), in 1933 children: a daughter. But Victor’s intentions towards the young widow are, in short, not quite honorable.British novelist and poet, best known as the author of Cold Comfort Farm. Only the prospect of the upcoming charity ball can lift her spirits especially as Victor Spring, the local prince charming, will be there. Withers dismisses her as a common shop girl and Viola’s sisters in law, Madge and Tina, are too preoccupied with their own troubles to give her much thought. Its occupants are nearly insufferable: Mr. Poor, lovely Viola has been left penniless and alone after her late husband’s demise, and is forced to live with his family in their joy less home. Recommended for both literary and popular collections.Ī sly and satirical fairytale by the author of Cold Comfort Farm Unavailable for decades, Stella Gibbons’s Nightingale Wood is a delightfully modern romance ripe for rediscovery by the many fans of Cold Comfort Farm. Anne Massey’s skillful rendering of a variety of accents will make this story more accessible to American audiences. The other half is Gibbons’s wicked sendup of romantic cliches, from the mad woman in the attic to the druidical peasants with their West Country accents and mystical herbs. Flora’s confident and clever management of an alarming cast of eccentrics is only half the pleasure of this novel.
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. In Gibbons’s classic tale, a resourceful young hero*ine 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.
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