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. 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. Much of her work was long out of print before a modest revival in the 21st century.

Like Cold Comfort Farm, Waugh's 1930 novel Vile Bodies is prefaced by a note defining its setting as "the near future", and both novels portray a fascination with new or projected technology. [34] Drabble, Margaret, ed. (1985). The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-866130-4. Tending the flame for Lee has also involved creating Extinction Rebellion demonstrations. “Their journey as a brand new biggest ever community-led organisation in the world is phenomenal,” says Lee but he concedes that, post-Covid, “it’s uncertain what their journey ahead will be”. He’s now working with Music Declares Emergency to seek a carbon-neutral industry. “We’re living in a time of great transformation. Whether it’s fast enough, I don’t know. But we’re seeing real change at board level in multimillion dollar organisations, and that’s wonderful.”Perhaps because all their flaws and vanities are held up for our laughing scrutiny, they all end up being sympathetic characters, in their way. They're also very familiar characters: we may think we've come a long way but seriously, I think it's fair to say that there are plenty of Viola's, Tina's, Mr Withers, Victor's, Phyllis's and Hetty's around today. Which just emphasises how shrewd Gibbons' eye really was. So we laugh and wince at the same time. This did make me feel about the difference to children to adults and I strongly believe that children should have the right to give an opinion in 1919 (the year this book has been set in) and in any time zone.

The aims of management at both woodlands will be to continue to provide a valuable resource for the health and wellbeing of local communities, with wildlife and biodiversity that will continue to be enhanced through our management, with opportunities taken to enhance these features. Nightingale Wood isn't the book Stella Gibbons is known for but I think it's her best. It's been described as a Cinderella story, but it's so much more. There are two main couples to focus on but it's also about people's individual needs and desires. To continue the approach of ‘greening the village’, a Neighbourhood Plan was developed and approved by referendum in 2017. One of its primary aims was that, when the village expanded, it would include significant areas of publicly accessible green space and landscaping to reflect our rural heritage. enterradoenvidaLa segunda novela que quería traer era la fantástica “Enterrado en vida” del también británico Arnold Bennett y lo voy a introducir gracias al postfacio a esta edición que realiza José C. Vales Hammill, Faye (Winter 2001). "Cold Comfort Farm, D. H. Lawrence, and English Literary Culture Between the Wars". Modern Fiction Studies. 47 (4): 831–54. doi: 10.1353/mfs.2001.0086. S2CID 162211201. (subscription required)Lo que parece inicialmente una novela policíaca checa, trasciende el género para presentar además, elementos metaficcionales, solo tenemos que observar la propia presencia del escritor en la obras, como vemos en el interrogatorio a Modracek: The only unrealistic part for me is about no one ever discovering that Moth was really the ‘dead’ Mrs Young, the previous owner of Hope House. She always had fresh food to give to Henry so she must have got her eggs from somewhere…

The word "sukebind" was invented by Gibbons. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines it as "An imaginary plant associated with superstition, fertility and intense rustic passion". [28]

Henrietta, a loving but shy girl and her bedridden mother; Piglet, a baby who is very curious; Dr Hardy, the cold hearted doctor and last but not least, Moth, the brave and beautiful “witch” but is she really a witch or is she just hiding something? Life is not quite a fairytale for poor Viola. Left penniless, the young widow is forced to live with her late husband’s family in a joyless old house. There’s Mr Wither, a tyrannical old miser, Mrs Wither, who thinks Viola is just a common shop girl and two unlovely sisters-in-law, one of whom is in love with the chauffeur. Nightingale Wood is a really delightful Cinderella type tale from the author who of course is better known for having brought us Cold Comfort Farm. However I think that the novel is a little deceptive, it is not as light as it may appear, and there is a complexity and poignancy to it that is especially well done. Gibbons has captured a rural community of the 1930’s with its class divisions and restrictions, highlighting the differing social positions of her characters and the way those positions are perceived by others. I am fascinated by Stella Gibbons' style of narrating and seeing people. She wasn't polite or nice to her characters. Sometimes she was simply harsh. So, meeting them, getting to know them can be difficult. I so wanted to like them, but Mrs Gibbons seemed to do all she could to make it hard. And, although, it often gave me the unpleasing feeling that humans are horrible (or at least ridiculous) species, on the other hand, I loved it. Reading it was like watching painful/harsh truth, that in the end gives one some kind of (perhaps a bit twisted) hope. It is hard to explain it. I remember that the similar impression I had after The Matchmaker.