Stella Gibbons

Stella Gibbons was born in 1902 in London, the daughter of a doctor whose erratic behavior provided early material for her comic imagination. She studied journalism at University College London and worked as a reporter, drama critic, and fashion writer before publishing Cold Comfort Farm in 1932, at the age of twenty-nine. The novel was an immediate success, winning the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize, and Gibbons was hailed as a brilliant new comic voice. She went on to publish twenty-four more novels, several volumes of poetry, and numerous short stories over the following decades, but none achieved the fame of her debut. She lived quietly in London with her husband, the actor Allan Webb, and their daughter, and she was known for her modesty and her dry wit. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Cold Comfort Farm.