![]() ![]() ![]() Judith, his wife, who has a sexual fixation on her son.Amos who runs the farm: a fire-and-brimstone preacher at the local chapel.The ancient hired man Adam Lambsbreath and his four cows: Aimless, Feckless, Graceless and Pointless, who are continually losing horns, hooves and even legs.Arriving at the farm she finds it even more chaotic than she had feared, and the inhabitants more uncouth than she could have imagined. She settles on the Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm, since, according to the novels of rural life she has read, their lives will certainly need tidying up. The plot is simple: Orphaned at 19, Flora Poste decides to go and live with her relatives and improve their lives rather than find a job. Jane Austen is the novel's presiding spirit, and Mansfield Park provides the epigraph: 'Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.' At the same time she has a good laugh at Vogue-reading London socialites, while mocking the genre in which a young orphan girl brings joy and happiness to the lives of all around her. try one), but she also pokes fun at more redoubtable figures such as D.H. The immediate inspiration for, and targets of, Gibbons's satire were the novels of Mary Webb and Sheila Kaye-Smith (which deserve it. ![]() "We are not like other folk, maybe, but there have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort."Ī comic novel by Stella Gibbons, first published in 1932, which parodies the doom-laden rural novels of the time. ![]()
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