Books
1902 - 1989
Stella Dorothea Gibbons, novelist, poet and short-story writer, was born in London. 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.
Her first publication was a book of Poems, The Mountain Beast (1930), and her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm (1932), won the Femina View Heureuse Prize for 1933. Amongst her other novels are Miss Linsey and Pa (1936), Conference at Cold Comfort Farm (1959) and Beside the Pearly Water (1954). Her Collected Poems appeared in 1950.
In 1933 she married the actor and singer Allan Webb, who died in 1959. They had one daughter.
Works
Series
Cold Comfort Farm
Cold Comfort Farm (1932)
Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm (1940)
Conference at Cold Comfort Farm (1949)
Novels
Bassett (1934)
The Priestess (1934)
Enbury Heath (1935)
The Untidy Gnome (1935)
Miss Linsey and Pa (1936)
Nightingale Wood (1938)
My American (1939)
The Rich House (1941)
Ticky (1943)
The Bachelor (1944)
Westwood (1946)
aka The Gentle Powers
The Matchmaker (1949)
The Swiss Summer (1951)
Fort of the Bear (1953)
Beside the Pearly Water (1954)
The Shadow of a Sorcerer (1955)
Here Be Dragons (1956)
White Sand And Grey Sand (1958)
A Pink Front Door (1959)
The Weather At Tregulla (1962)
The Wolves Were in the Sledge (1964)
The Charmers (1965)
Starlight (1967)
Snow-woman (1968)
Woods in Winter (1970)
Collections
The Mountain Beast (poems) (1930)
Roaring Tower (1937)
The Lowland Venus (poems) (1938)
Collected Poems (poems) (1950)