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	Encyclopedia: Stella Gibbons
		Stella Dorothea Gibbons (5 January 1902—19 December 1989) was an English novelist and poet.
		Stella Gibbons began work as a secretary for an investment firm, but was shortly sacked after a miscalculation of data leading to a slight 'blip' in the worlwide stock market.
		Gibbons also mocks the rural genre and the gothic novelk thoruogh her styl;e and purple passages, starred as they would be in the baedeker travel guides.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Stella-Gibbons (696 words)

	Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Stella exploits the stock theme of religious bigotry to glorious effect in the Quivering Brethren, and the scene in their chapel, like "an unusually large dog kennel", is one of the high spots of the book.
		Stella humanises him by revealing the underlying vanity of the man and the sheer pleasure he secretly derives from practising his craft as a preacher ("...the man was an artist").
		Stella had as good a claim as any to have seen something nasty in the woodshed of her childhood, but she refused to allow the guilt and misery of the past to colour the present.
	www.catharton.com /stellagibbons/worksfarm.html (7891 words)

	Stella (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Un stella es un sphera de plasma in equilibrio hydrostatic que genera energia in su interior pro medio de fusion thermonuclear.
		Le stellas non son distribuite uniformemente in le universo, ma, typicamente, son aggruppate in galaxias.
		Le composition chimic de un stella varia de stella a stella, ma quando comencia su vita un stella como le sol es approximatemente 75% hydrogeno, 23% helium e le 2% restante son elementos plus pesante como potassium, carbon, oxygeno, aluminium, sodium, sulfure, ferro, inter alteres.
	interlingua.encyclopedia.st /Stella (562 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Out of the Woodshed: Portrait of Stella Gibbons: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Stella Gibbons is remembered for one book, the wildly funny Cold Comfort Farm, and otherwise largely forgotten.
		This biography by her playwright nephew gives a comprehensive and forgiving portrait of a rather ordinary life, in which writing took second place to her religious beliefs and the performance as good wife and mother that went with them.
		Stella Gibbons grew up with a domineering father and spent a brief period running with a fast bohemian set before settling into marriage with an unsuccessful singer who had snobbish relatives.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0747539952 (524 words)

	Amazon.com: Cold Comfort Farm: Books: Stella Gibbons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The most winning feature of Gibbon's book (after the fact that it is hysterically funny) is that she skewers not only the conventions of the 1930s upper classes to which Flora belongs, but also the working class denizens of the farm.
		One miniscule note of caution: Gibbons, writing in the 1930s, sets her novel "in the near future," and adds a couple of futuristic features that confuse the casual reader-telephones with televisions in them so you can see the speaker, references to the "Anglo-Nicaraguan War" and the like.
		Stella Gibbons was one such writer, and like Anita Loos, she was happy to eye everything humorously: the idle wealthy (Mary Smiling and her bra collection), people who live in squalor and hate it, but aren't willing to change (the Farm inhabitants), and even intellectuals ("Do you believe women have souls?").
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/014018869X?v=glance (2144 words)

	Cold Comfort Farm Movie Review
		Stella Gibbons' novel took aim at the over-wrought potboilers which proliferated in the late 20s and early 30s, as well as Gothic tales in the _Wuthering Heights_ mode.
		COLD COMFORT FARM is a parody, and the characters are _supposed_ to be exaggerated the literary types they represent: the maid's daughter is always pregnant, Seth is always shirtless and randy, and Aunt Ada and Judith are always making ominous pronouncements.
		But Schlesinger and Bradbury show Gibbons' characters with an eye to the basic desire for happiness which Flora is trying to uncover.
	www.killermovies.com /c/coldcomfortfarm/reviews/34p.html (611 words)

	Stella Gibbons -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Stella Gibbons -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Stella Dorothea Gibbons (5 January, 1902—19 December, 1989) was an (An Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the Commonwealth countries) English (Someone who writes novels) novelist and poet.
		Her works include (Click link for more info and facts about Cold Comfort Farm) Cold Comfort Farm.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/st/stella_gibbons.htm (92 words)

	Stella Gibbons - Penguin Group (USA) Authors - Penguin Group (USA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Stella Gibbons - Penguin Group (USA) Authors - Penguin Group (USA)
		Stella Dorothea Gibbons, novelist, poet and short-story writer, was born in London in 1902.
		She went to the North London Collegiate School and studied journalism at University College, London.
	www.penguinputnam.com /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000012267,00.html (122 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| Cold Comfort Farm
		THERE ARE a few quibbles to be made with John Schlesinger's faithful adaptation of Stella Gibbons' merciless 1932 literary satire Cold Comfort Farm.
		If only the artistic themes Stella Gibbons had skewered occurred once in a century as well, but they are as healthy as they were in 1936--or healthier.
		In her novel, Gibbons took aim at some specific targets--not D.H. Lawrence and Thomas Hardy per se, and certainly not William Faulkner, but the since-forgotten writers who were influenced by them.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/05.30.96/comfort-9622.html (668 words)

	Stella (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It was first used by Sir Philip Sidney as a pseudonym for Lady Penelope Rich in his poem Astrophel to Stella.
		It was used occasionally as a nickname by literary types (Jonathan Swift called his friend Esther Johnson “Stella”).
		In the 19th century, Stella became a fairly common as a real first name.
	www.geocities.com /edgarbook/names/s/stella.html (83 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - Cold Comfort Farm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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		It also provides an opportunity to revisit the milieu of his 1967 "Far From the Madding Crowd" and satirize the gloom and doom of that romantic rural saga.
		Indeed, Gibbons set out to spoof the serious, soul-searing, rural-set stories of writers like D.H. Lawrence and Mary Webb, not to mention Thomas Hardy.
	www.variety.com /article/VE1117904210 (641 words)

	r e a d i n g r o o m
		I saw the movie and then decided to read the book by Stella Gibbons.
		However, I can't seem to find a really good page that has biographical and bibliographical information about her...though I DID come across something nasty in the woodshed.
		And speaking of woodsheds, a recent biography of her life is called Out of the Woodshed: The Life of Stella Gibbons.
	faculty.etsu.edu /tolleyst/weblog/archives/0112.htm (1571 words)

	Amazon.com: Cold Comfort Farm (1996): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Moving in with some half-savage relatives on a country farm, Flora is hardly daunted by their primitivism (as she might have been in a novel by Thomas Hardy) but instead takes charge and imposes hygiene, order, and good manners on the dirty, superstitious lot.
		This is a marvelous and fairly faithful adaptation of Stella Gibbons' 1932 novel of the same name.
		The film brilliantly captures the quirkiness of the novel which is a hysterically funny, tongue in cheek parody of the heavy handed, gloomy novels of some early twentieth century English writers who had previously been so popular.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00009IB1D?v=glance (2336 words)

	The poetic art of Dorothy Cowlin. Part one: the novels.
		I tried Mary Webb's name on our local reader's club and no-one had heard of her.
		But they knew of Stella Gibbons' Cold Comfort Farm.
		This is a parody of Webb's novels and praised as such by The Reader's Encyclopedia, for instance.
	www.lit4lib.sky7.us /dc.htm (4140 words)

	Find in a Library: Out of the woodshed : a portrait of Stella Gibbons
		Out of the woodshed : a portrait of Stella Gibbons
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	worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/2eb55bfbb4e737f8a19afeb4da09e526.html (53 words)

	Alibris: Stella Gibbons
		Their squalid farm is ruled by Ada Doom, who was traumatized in her childhood by "something nasty in the woodshed." Written as a parody of popular fiction in 1932, this witty novel is being reissued in conjunction with the film in an adaptation...
		by Gibbons, Bob, and Wood, Michael (Illustrator), and Tranah, Stella (Illustrator)
		This new series of fabulously illustrated four-color natural history travel guides finally offers a practical and fun way to enjoy the wildlife and natural resources of a country.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Stella_Gibbons (310 words)

	Movie Database - [TV Guide Online] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Based on the 1932 novel by Stella Gibbons and directed by John Schlesinger, this tart but fluffy paean to good sense and clean linen is a bracing reminder that the reason the English think they're so clever is that they are -- some of them, at any rate.
		Look for Ab Fab's Joanna Lumley as a cultured connoisseur of brassieres, and Ian McKellen demonstrating vigorously that there's no hambone like a knighted hambone.
		Malcolm Bradbury (based on the novel by Stella Gibbons)
	online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=37681 (166 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Cold Comfort Farm (Essential.penguin S.): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It is one that is sure to make the reader revisit this novel yet again, like an old friend who is missed too soon.
		Customers who bought books by Stella Gibbons also bought books by these authors:
		Subjects > Fiction > Authors, A-Z > G > Gibbons, Stella
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140274146 (790 words)

	ALL ABOUT ROMANCE (novels) reviews Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		ALL ABOUT ROMANCE (novels) reviews Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
		By Stella Gibbons, 1932 (later reissued in paperback and still in print), Satire
		During her job at a newspaper, the author Stella Gibbons had to prepare a synopsis of The House In Dormir Forest by rural novelist Mary Webb, and thought it was simply absurd.
	www.likesbooks.com /ellen440.html (808 words)

	eBay - cold comfort, DVD, Natural Therapies items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		CONFERENCE AT COLD COMFORT FARM BY STELLA GIBBONS, 1949
		Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm - 3 CD Set
		Stella Gibbons "Cold Comfort Farm" read by Anna Massey
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=cold+comfort&newu=1&krd=1 (411 words)

	Stella Dorothea Gibbons (Mrs A.B. Webb) (1902-1989), Novelist and poet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Stella Dorothea Gibbons (Mrs A.B. Webb) (1902-1989), Novelist and poet
		The online database contains information on 64,720 works, 43,628 of which are illustrated; the National Portrait Gallery's collection includes over 330,000 works.
		National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London WC2H OHE.
	www.npg.org.uk /live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp57010 (71 words)

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	Dorothea "Stella" Gibbons, English journalist/author, dies at 87 December 19 in History
		Dorothea "Stella" Gibbons, English journalist/author, dies at 87 December 19 in History
		Dorothea "Stella" Gibbons, English journalist/author, dies at 87
		What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
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