Stella Gibbons

Stella Gibbons was born in London in 1902, the daughter of a doctor who practised in Kentish Town, a working-class district of north London. Her childhood was often turbulent and unhappy. After school she trained as a journalist and worked as a reporter and features writer, mainly for the Evening Standard and the magazine The Lady. Her first book, a collection of poems, appeared in 1930 and was well received, and all her life she thought of herself as mainly a poet. Her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm (1932), made her famous. It is a comedy in which a sensible young woman, Flora Poste, goes to stay with her gloomy relatives on a muddy Sussex farm and sets about putting their lives in order, and it pokes fun at the gloomy rural novels popular at the time. She wrote more than twenty further novels, mostly set in the middle-class suburban world she knew, as well as stories and poems, but none matched the success of her first. In 1950 she became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She died in London in 1989.

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