WRITER

Stella Gibbons

1902 - 1989

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Stella Dorothea Gibbons (5 January 1902 – 19 December 1989) was an English author, journalist, and poet. She established her reputation with her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm (1932) which has been reprinted many times. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stella Gibbons has received more than 294,148 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Stella Gibbons is the 6,331st most popular writer (down from 5,674th in 2019), the 5,451st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,905th in 2019) and the 621st most popular British Writer.

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  • 41.80

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  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Fort of the Bear
1953
Conference at Cold Comfort Farm
Farm life, Fiction, Rural families
1949
Here be dragons
1956
The bachelor
1944
Nightingale Wood
1938
Cold Comfort Farm
Family, Farm life, Fiction
When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm, she meets the doomed Starkadders: cousin Judith, heaving with remorse for unspoken wickedness; Amos, preaching fire and damnation; their sons, lustful Seth and despairing Reuben; child of nature Elfine; and crazed old Aunt Ada Doom, who has kept to her bedroom for the last twenty years. But Flora loves nothing better than to organize other people. Armed with common sense and a strong will, she resolves to take each of the family in hand. A hilarious and merciless parody of rural melodramas, Cold Comfort Farm (1932) is one of the best-loved comic novels of all time.
1932

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Stella Gibbons ranks 6,331 out of 7,302. Before her are Naomi Wolf, Henry Vaughan, Tsai Chih-chung, Richard Wilbur, William Roscoe, and Terry Southern. After her are Alberto Dines, Veronica Roth, Bill Prady, Kathleen Raine, Brian Friel, and Pat Conroy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Stella Gibbons ranks 326. Before her are Mary Nolan, William Cockburn, Leon Ames, Eddie Lang, Walter Dietrich, and Charles Barton. After her are Esther Ralston, Egon Orowan, Leo Losert, Nora Swinburne, Douglas Lowe, and Harold McMunn. Among people deceased in 1989, Stella Gibbons ranks 284. Before her are May Allison, Pua Kealoha, S. David Griggs, Ursula Knab, Constance Binney, and Robert B. Anderson. After her are Egon Orowan, Prem Nazir, Willi Horn, Frank Sullivan, Ludwig Schuberth, and Aristid Lindenmayer.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Stella Gibbons ranks 5,451 out of 8,785. Before her are Skandar Keynes (1991), Arthur Gardiner Butler (1844), Graham Higman (1917), Cleo Laine (1927), Jeffrey Hammond (1946), and Roy Evans (1948). After her are Ellie Goulding (1986), Kathleen Raine (1908), David Payne (1843), Benjamin Whitrow (1937), Brian Friel (1929), and Angela Cartwright (1952).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Stella Gibbons ranks 621. Before her are Alastair Reynolds (1966), Dick King-Smith (1922), Thomas Warton (1728), Andrew Davies (1936), Henry Vaughan (1621), and William Roscoe (1753). After her are Kathleen Raine (1908), Brian Friel (1929), Angie Sage (1952), Susan Hill (1942), Compton Mackenzie (1883), and John Skelton (1460).

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