Gibbons, Stella

Gibbons, Stella

▪ British writer
born Jan. 5, 1902, London, Eng.
died Dec. 19, 1989, London

      English novelist and poet whose first novel, Cold Comfort Farm (1932), a burlesque of the rural novel, won for her in 1933 the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize and immediate fame.

      The daughter of a London doctor who worked in the poor section of London, she experienced many unhappy years as a child. Depressed by her environment and family life, Gibbons, the eldest of three children, created marvelous fairy tales that she told to her two brothers to help them forget their unhappy situation. Educated at home until she reached her teens, she then attended the North London Collegiate School for Girls and University College, London, where she studied journalism. After graduation she worked for a time for the British United Press as a cable decoder and held various other jobs over a period of 10 years (1923–33), including those of drama and literature critic, reporter, and fashion writer.

      Cold Comfort Farm was a popular and critical success but was never equaled by her later work. Her later fiction, although well-written, was said by critics to dwindle into magazine entertainment. Gibbons wrote several other novels, including Westwood; or, The Gentle Powers (1946) and Here Be Dragons (1956), two works that deal with a young woman's disillusionment and education, as well as The Charmers (1965) and The Woods in Winter (1970). She also published poetry and four collections of short stories.

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