Cold Comfort from Stella Gibbons

Stella Gibbons

Cold Comfort Farm

Satire

1932

Comic classic

Book is funny

Attitudes

Assumptions

Satirizes

Regional novel

Something alien

Gerally urban

Agriculture

Flora

London girl

Starkadders

Catchall

Regionalist themes and images

Motives, characterizations

Prose styles

Cousin judith starkadder

Son, Seth

Two hundred photographs

Husband, Amos

Youngest, Elfine

Boysish

Unkempt

Almost aloof

Writes poetry

Cousins

Wivies populate farm

Attitudes

Human relationships

Nature

Exaggerates

Mocks

Humor works

Parody

Tidying up

Chaotic affairs )

Nostalgia

Romance