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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]
Aug 17, 2017 · AUTHOR OF “COLD COMFORT FARM”: MISS STELLA GIBBONS. Miss Stella Gibbons’s novel has been most favourably reviewed. It is a well-sustained parody of the Loam-and-Love-child school of fiction. from The Sketch (London) of 21 st September 1932
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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In short, the novel is a witty satire and not afraid to make fun, whether mocking the gloom of the Starkadders or mocking the literary man Mr. Mybug (real name Meyerberg) allegedly based on D H Lawrence, as he is obsessed with sex and is writing a book proving that Branwell Brontë wrote all his sisters’ books. This book should be better ...
Dangerfield appreciates the broad satire, which he finds necessary, and calls Cold Comfort Farm a “masterpiece.” Moorman, Charles. “Five Views of a Dragon.”
Sep 1, 2019 · Cold Comfort Farm is the amusing story of Flora Poste, a sensible young woman from London who goes to live with relatives in Sussex, the eccentric Starkadders. The author, Stella Gibbons, had grown up among weird relations.
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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.
