Stella Dorothea Gibbons (5 January 1902 – 19 December 1989) was an English author, journalist, and poet. She established her reputation with her first...
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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...
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Schlesinger and produced by the BBC and Thames Television, an adaptation of Stella Gibbons' 1932 book of the same name, the film stars Kate Beckinsale, Joanna...
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University of London Stella Gibbons (1902–1989), English author Steve Gibbons (disambiguation) Thomas Gibbons (disambiguation) William Gibbons (congressman)...
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Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, and the Virago Press re-issue of Stella Gibbons' 1938 novel Nightingale Wood – both released in April 2009 – and Nancy...
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Jacqueline Wilson Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons Magician by Raymond E. Feist On the Road by Jack Kerouac The Godfather...
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thought to have inspired the famous parody Cold Comfort Farm (1932) by Stella Gibbons. She was born Mary Gladys Meredith in 1881 at Leighton Lodge in the...
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Caroline Sylvia Gabriel (artist) Dame Helen Gardner (academic/writer) Stella Gibbons (1902–1989) (novelist) Margaret Gilmore (former BBC correspondent) Eleanor...
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Artists was performed on Radio 3 in 1989. Oliver's biography of his aunt Stella Gibbons, Out of the Woodshed, was published by Bloomsbury in 1998; and he is...
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the first recorded uses of "putting lipstick on a pig" are later. In Stella Gibbons' Westwood (published in 1946) Hebe visits a hair salon and has her hair...
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Haverstock Hill Noel Gallagher, musician and songwriter, at 8 Steele's Road Stella Gibbons, journalist, poet, and writer, at 33 Upper Park Road Hazel Hunkins Hallinan...
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Cloudstreet Tim Winton 1991 Family & Friendship Australian Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons 1932 Family & Friendship British I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith 1948...
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comedy that draws on both Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. Stella Benson, the first-person narrator, abruptly abandons...
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Stephen Geary, architect of Highgate Cemetery John Gibbons, ironmaster and art patron Stella Gibbons, novelist, author of Cold Comfort Farm Margaret Gillies...
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TCP Westwood plus, a modification of TCP Westood Westwood, a novel by Stella Gibbons West Wood (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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sisters' books. Branwell is referenced by the character "Mr Mybug" in Stella Gibbons' 1932 comic novel Cold Comfort Farm. In a parody of the "Hampstead intellectual"...
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several works that inspired the later parody novel Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons. The plot follows the lives of the Darke family, now headed by Solomon...
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Seth Starkadder, a character in the 1932 novel Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons Seth, a character in the television series Di-Gata Defenders Seth (Phantasy...
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prominent political historian of the Tudor period Ken Follett Clare Francis Stella Gibbons Simon Inglis, architectural historian and sports writer David Irving...
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series by Ann M. Martin Flora Poste, in the novel Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons Flora Reinhold, in the video game series Professor Layton Flora the...
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Wilkie Collins, Defoe, Mary Shelley, Arnold Bennett, Eudora Welty, Stella Gibbons, E.F. Benson, and Edmund Crispin. He won the 2015 Premio Nadal for his...
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a species of rat. In the comic novel and film Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, one of the characters, Urk, refers to the subject of his unrequited...
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during their retirement. In contrast, in the novel Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, Aunt Ada Doom saw "something nasty in the woodshed" and retreated to...
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angiosperm. Sukebind: fictional flower in the novel Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons. Tesla trees: large electrified trees from the planet Hyperion in Hyperion...
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Richard Hughes 1932 Tobit Transplanted Stella Benson 1933 Small Town Bradda Field 1934 Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons 1935 Harriet Elizabeth Jenkins 1936...
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Golden Calf Yury Olesha (1899–1960, Soviet Union) – Three Fat Men, Envy Stella Gibbons (1902–1989, England) – author of comic novel Cold Comfort Farm Evelyn...
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played the part of Reuben Starkadder in BBC Radio 4's 1981 production of Stella Gibbons' novel Cold Comfort Farm. Hadoke, Toby (12 October 2017). "Obituary...
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into a BBC radio play. (Fell Top was the kind of rustic novel that Stella Gibbons parodied in her novel Cold Comfort Farm.) Her second novel, Odd Shoes...
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Wells Brown The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons Collected Poems by Arthur Rimbaud Collected Poems by Kingsley Amis Collected...
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Davies - John Gould Fletcher - John Galsworthy - Viola Gerard Garvin - Stella Gibbons - Wilfrid Gibson - G. Rostrevor Hamilton - Ernest Hartsock - F. R. Higgins...
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