Stella Gibbons (1902–1989)
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Sobre El Autor
Stella Gibbons was born on January 5, 1902 in London. She married Allan Bourne Webb in 1933 and had one child. Raised in a poor and unhappy home, she used her vivid imagination as a means of escape, often telling stories to entertain her younger brothers and other children in the neighborhood. She mostrar más held numerous jobs including drama critic, reporter, and fashion writer and was a frequent contributor to magazines such as Punch and Tattler, writing short stories and poetry. Gibbons is best known for her novel Cold Comfort Farm. A satirical portrait of rural British life in the 1930's, it won the Femina Vie Heureuse prize in 1933. In the book, Flora, a socialite, is orphaned and forced to live with relatives in the country. Flora tries to bring order and sense to the gloomy Starkadders on Cold Comfort Farm. To the delight of readers, this novel has been adapted several times as successful British films. Stella Gibbons died on December 19, 1989 in London. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Series
Obras de Stella Gibbons
Cold Comfort Farm (Abridged Edition) 24 copias
Fort of the Bear 4 copias
The Other Side of the Medal 1 copia
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Gibbons, Stella
- Nombre legal
- Gibbons, Stella Dorothea
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1902-01-05
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1989-12-19
- Lugar de sepultura
- Highgate Cemetery, London, England, UK
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- País (para mapa)
- England, UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- London, England, UK
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- London, England, UK
- Lugares de residencia
- London, England, UK
- Educación
- North London Collegiate School for Girls
University College London (Dipl.|1922 -- Journalism) - Ocupaciones
- poet
novelist
journalist
short-story writer - Relaciones
- Oliver, Reggie (nephew)
Webb, Allan (husband) - Organizaciones
- The Evening Standard
The Lady
British United Press - Premios y honores
- Femina Vie Heureuse Prize (1933)
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (1950) - Biografía breve
- Stella Gibbons was born in the Hampstead area of north London, the daughter of a melodramatic family. Her father was a respected physician, but violent and tyrannical. She attended North London Collegiate School for Girls and University College London. In 1924, she began working as a journalist for the British United Press news agency and later wrote for publications such as The Evening Standard and The Lady magazine. In 1933, she married Allan Bourne Webb, an actor and vocalist, with whom she had a daughter.
Her first published poetic work was the collection Mountain Beast (1930), but she attracted enduring fame with her amusing, satirical novel Cold Comfort Farm in 1932. It won her the prestigious Prix Femina Vie Heureuse in 1933. Stella Gibbons was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1950. She published her last novel in 1970 but continued to write for her own pleasure.
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Debates
THE DEEP ONES: "Roaring Tower" by Stella Gibbons en The Weird Tradition (mayo 2022)
1001 Group Read: Cold Comfort Farm en 1001 Books to read before you die (agosto 2011)
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- #3,088
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- 4.1
- Reseñas
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- ISBNs
- 170
- Idiomas
- 6
- Favorito
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