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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, who served both as influences and as targets of burlesque.
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, Timeline
Texts
Gibbons, Stella. A Pink Front Door. Hodder and Stoughton, 1959.
Gibbons, Stella. Bassett. Longmans, Green, 1934.
Gibbons, Stella. Beside the Pearly Water. P. Nevill, 1954.
Gibbons, Stella. Cold Comfort Farm. Longmans, Green, 1932.
Gibbons, Stella. Cold Comfort Farm. Penguin Books, 1994.
Gibbons, Stella. Collected Poems. Longmans, Green, 1950.
Gibbons, Stella. Conference at Cold Comfort Farm. Longmans, Green, 1949.
Gibbons, Stella. Enbury Heath. Longmans, Green, 1935.
Gibbons, Stella. Fort of the Bear. Longmans, Green, 1953.
Gibbons, Stella. Miss Linsey and Pa. Longmans, Green, 1936.
Gibbons, Stella. My American. Longmans, Green, 1939.
Gibbons, Stella. Nightingale Wood. Longmans, Green, 1938.
Gibbons, Stella. Roaring Tower and Other Stories. Longmans, Green, 1937.
Gibbons, Stella. The Bachelor. Dodd, Mead, 1944.
Gibbons, Stella. The Bachelor. Longmans, Green, 1944.
Gibbons, Stella. The Charmers. Hodder and Stoughton, 1965.
Gibbons, Stella. The Matchmaker. Longmans, Green, 1949.
Gibbons, Stella. The Mountain Beast. Longmans, Green, 1930.
Gibbons, Stella. The Rich House. Longmans, Green, 1941.
Gibbons, Stella. The Shadow of a Sorcerer. Hodder and Stoughton, 1955.
Gibbons, Stella. The Snow-Woman. Hodder and Stoughton, 1969.
Gibbons, Stella. The Untidy Gnome. Longmans, Green, 1935.
Gibbons, Stella. The Wolves Were in the Sledge. Hodder and Stoughton, 1964.
Gibbons, Stella. The Woods in Winter. Hodder and Stoughton, 1970.
Gibbons, Stella. Ticky. Longmans, Green, 1943.