Stella Gibbons

Stella Dorothea Gibbons was an English novelist, journalist, poet, and short-story writer. Her first novel, <i>Cold Comfort Farm</i>, won the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize for 1933. This work is a satire and parody of the pessimistic ruralism found in the works of Thomas Hardy and his followers. Gibbons introduces a self-confident, modern, pragmatic, and optimistic young woman into the grim, fate-bound, and dark rural scenes that those novelists tended to portray.