Stella Gibbons

Stella Gibbons was born in London in 1902, the daughter of a doctor in the poor districts who had a violent temper. A journalist on an evening newspaper, she had to summarise for readers the instalments of a rustic novel published in serial form, a chore from which her first novel would emerge. She went on to publish more than twenty others, overshadowed by the first, as well as four collections of verse; she had first seen herself as a poet and found it hard to bear being known for a single book. She died in 1989.

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• NovelCold Comfort FarmStella Gibbons · 1932Literature