Stella Gibbons

Stella Dorothea Gibbons (1902-1989) was a novelist, poet, and short-story writer born in London. She went to the North London Collegiate School and studied journalism at University College, London. She then worked for ten years on various papers, including the Evening Standard . Her first publication was a book of poems, The Mountain Beast , and her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm , won the Femina Vie Heuruse Prize in 1933. Among her other novels are Miss Linsey and Pa , Nightingale Wood ,...See more

Stella Dorothea Gibbons (1902-1989) was a novelist, poet, and short-story writer born in London. She went to the North London Collegiate School and studied journalism at University College, London. She then worked for ten years on various papers, including the Evening Standard . Her first publication was a book of poems, The Mountain Beast , and her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm , won the Femina Vie Heuruse Prize in 1933. Among her other novels are Miss Linsey and Pa , Nightingale Wood , Westwood , Conference at Cold Comfort Farm , and Beside the Pearly Water . Her Collected Poems appeared in 1950. See less