Stella Gibbons

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In England, Stella Gibbons is a national treasure. In the United States, she’s known mainly by people who were only required to read one of her books, COLD COMFORT FARM, in British Lit 101 class. Typically, if you’ve heard of Stella Gibbons, you are one of three things: English, a bookseller, or a devout hunter of sublime, hilarious, midbrow, midwars lady British writers.

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Wilfred Davis, quiet, retired, respectable widower, is sitting and sobbing on a park bench. He has lost his daughter and any sense of purpose. A mysterious stranger passes him a handkerchief, and strikes up a conversation that leads to friendship and an unconventional new home for Wilfred. Mary Davis wants only four things out of life: a husband and three children, so at seventeen she runs away from school, her father and her home and moves to London to find them. Only a few months later…

Stella Gibbons ( 1902 – 1989) was an English author, journalist, and poet. She made her reputation with her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm, which has been reprinted many times. Although she was active as a writer for half a century, none of her later 22 novels or other literary works—which included

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Great biography of English author Stella Gibbons with a listing of her work and links to summaries of all her amazing books