A few other scenes offer internal monologues conducted by Adam, Aunt Ada, and Judith.Īs the tale opens, 20-year-old Flora Poste has recently been orphaned. The story is told using a limited third-person narration from the viewpoint of the novel’s protagonist Flora Poste. However, most of the story unfolds at Cold Comfort Farm in Sussex.
The action begins in London, and several subsequent scenes take place in the city.
Given the book’s publication date, the reader can assume that the year is 1931. The events described in the novel take place over a five-month period from February through June. Although Gibbons wrote 22 more novels and several collections of poetry, her subsequent work never matched the success of her first book. Neither of the spinoffs achieved the same success as the original story. The sequel was titled Conference at Cold Comfort Farm (1949). A prequel called Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm (1940) consisted of a series of short stories. Widely regarded as a one-work novelist, she and her works have not been accepted into the canon of English literature-partly, other writers have suggested, because of her detachment from the literary world and her tendency to mock it.Gibbons wrote two more books about the characters from Cold Comfort Farm, the primary setting of the novel named in the title. The impact of Cold Comfort Farm dominated her career, and she grew to resent her identification with the book to the exclusion of the rest of her output. Her style has been praised by critics for its charm, barbed humour and descriptive skill, and has led to comparison with Jane Austen. 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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