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Tidy Minds and Untidy Lives
Introduction
Cold Comfort Farm
Flora
Collected
Coolly intelligent heroine
Tidying up
New home
Stella Gibbons
1902
North London Collegiate School for Girls
Journalism at university College
Died in 1989
Five volumes of poetry
Several collections of short stories
Over twenty novels
Natural genius
1932
Awarded the Femina Vie Heureuse Price
Wildly funny
Greatest humour
Parody
Narrative style
Parodic nature
Chapter 1
A tidy mind
Gibbons
Readers
Anticipate
Austen works
Flora
Her prodecessors
Connections to different heroines
Negative influences
Heroines
Blameless heroines
Influence
Isolation
Mrs. Smiling
Persuasion
Elfine
Arranged marriage to Urk
Starkadders
Emotional distance
Perspective needed
Recognize problems
Find solutions
Chapter 2
Mr. Mybug
Patrick Branwell Bronte
Sussex
Gibbons parody
Three different authors
Unified whole
Elements of setting
Charater
Plot
Brontes
Jane Eyre
Judith’s behaviour
Obsessive fixation
Aunt ada doom’s confinement is voluntary
Chapter 3
Gibbons
Readers
Recognizes connections
Forum
Subversive tendencies
Role as parodist
Flora’s philosophy
Austen and the brontes
Intertextual relationship
Flora
Views of arranged marriage