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- Cold Comfort Farm by British author Stella Gibbons (1902– 1989) is a comic novel that satirized the over-romanticized rural novel of the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was said to be a send-up of what was called the “loam and lovechild” genre, poking fun at purple prose by deliberately including passages even more purple.
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Cold Comfort Farm is a comic novel by English author Stella Gibbons, published in 1932. It parodies the romanticised, sometimes doom-laden accounts of rural life popular at the time, by writers such as Mary Webb. [1] The novel was awarded the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize in 1933. [2]
Dangerfield, George. “ Brilliant Satire: Cold Comfort Farm.”. Saturday Review of Literature 9 (April 1, 1933): 513. This is a rave review of the novel. Dangerfield appreciates the broad satire...
Cold Comfort Farm, comic novel by Stella Gibbons, published in 1932, a successful parody of regional and rural fiction by such early 20th-century English writers as Mary Webb and D.H. Lawrence. A popular and clever work, Cold Comfort Farm was awarded the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize in 1933.
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Jun 13, 2016 · Stella Gibbons’ Cold Comfort Farm. This podcast scripts catch-up from the Really Like This Book miniseries on the mighty tradition of British humour in fiction is on Stella Gibbons’ fine satire of rural life and literary pretentiousness, Cold Comfort Farm (1932). It won a prestigious literary prize in 1933, the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse ...
Cold Comfort Farm is an astute cultural satire from beginning to end. The British class system, British literature, the Romantic tradition in art, the romanticization of rural settings, Freudian psychology, firebrand preachers, hunky heroes, and sensitive heroines—these are just a few of the things that Gibbons pokes fun at.
While other female satirists of the 1930s might serve to develop this argument – Dorothy Parker or Dawn Powell in the United States, or Ivy Compton-Burnett in England – my case study here will be Cold Comfort Farm.
Cold Comfort Farm is a stinging satire and outrageously funny parody of the literature about rural English farm life, especially by Sheila Kaye-Smith, Mary Webb, and to a lesser extent, D.H. Lawrence and Thomas Hardy.
