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Stella Gibbons was born in London in 1902. 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. Stella Gibbons is the author of twenty-five novels, three volumes of short stories, and four volumes of poetry. Her first novel Cold Comfort Farm (1932) was an immediate success and won the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize for 1933. Among her works are Nightingale Wood (1938), The Bachelor (1944), Westwood (1946), and Starlight (1967). She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1950. Stella Gibbons died in 1989.
Stella Gibbons's gift is very special Daily Express [Gibbons] has not only charm but something far better, perspicacity -- Elizabeth Bowen Tatler [Gibbons has] a marvellous eye for the social scene - no-one is more accurate -- John Braine, Author Of Room At The Top
