Stella Gibbons
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Standard Name: Gibbons, Stella
Birth Name: Stella Dorothea Gibbons
Cold Comfort Farm, was such a success that it has tended to eclipse her later achievements. Much of her writing was inspired by the work of other women writers such as
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began her career as a journalist, and in addition to novels, she also wrote poems, short stories, and a book for children.
was a gifted comic writer whose lively, parodic first novel,