![]() Gibbons became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1950. ![]() After Cold Comfort Farm, a satire on the genre of rural-themed "loam and lovechild" novels popular in the late 1920s, most of Gibbons's novels were based within the middle-class suburban world with which she was familiar. Her first book, published in 1930, was a collection of poems which was well received, and through her life she considered herself primarily a poet rather than a novelist. After an indifferent school career she trained as a journalist, and worked as a reporter and features writer, mainly for the Evening Standard and The Lady. The daughter of a London doctor, Gibbons had a turbulent and often unhappy childhood. Much of her work was long out of print before a modest revival in the 21st century. Although she was active as a writer for half a century, none of her later 22 novels or other literary works-which included a sequel to Cold Comfort Farm-achieved the same critical or popular success. ![]() She established her reputation with her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm (1932) which has been reprinted many times. ![]() Stella Dorothea Gibbons (5 January 1902 – 19 December 1989) was an English author, journalist, and poet. ![]()
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