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Stella Dorothea Gibbons (5 gennaio 1902 – 19 dicembre 1989) è stata una scrittrice, giornalista e poetessa britannica. La fama della Gibbons è dovuta eminentemente al romanzo La fattoria delle magre consolazioni , vincitore del prestigioso Prix Femina Étranger e ristampato numerose volte.
London, England. Occupation. Writer. Nationality. English. Period. 1930–1970. Stella Dorothea Gibbons (5 January 1902 – 19 December 1989) was an English author, journalist, and poet. She established her reputation with her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm (1932) which has been reprinted many times.
Cold Comfort Farm is a comic novel by English author Stella Gibbons, published in 1932. It parodies the romanticised, sometimes doom-laden accounts of rural life popular at the time, by writers such as Mary Webb.
Stella Gibbons (born January 5, 1902, London, England—died December 19, 1989, London) was an 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.
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Cold Comfort Farm is a 1995 British comedy film directed by John 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 Lumley, Ian McKellen and Rufus Sewell.
Stella Dorothea Gibbons (* 5. Januar 1902 in London; † 19. Dezember 1989 ebenda) war eine britische Autorin, Journalistin und Lyrikerin. Ihre bis heute anhaltende Bekanntheit begründet sich auf ihrem Erstlingswerk Cold Comfort Farm, einem parodistischen Roman, der in Thema, Figuren und Handlung auf Erzählungen von Autoren wie ...
Stella Gibbons is the author of twenty-five novels, three volumes of short stories, and four volumes of poetry. Her first novel Cold Comfort Farm (1932) was an immediate success and won the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize for 1933. Among her works are Nightingale Wood (1938), The Bachelor (1944), Westwood (1946), and Starlight (1967).
