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Following the death of her parents, the book's heroine, Flora Poste, finds she is possessed "of every art and grace save that of earning her own living". She decides to take advantage of the fact that "no limits are set, either by society or one's own conscience, to the amount one may impose on one's
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and had been written by a young woman who was said to be very clever and had won an important literary prize. But she couldn't get on with it at all. It was about life on a farm, but the girl obviously knew nothing about country life. To anyone who, like herself, had always lived in the country,
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Mr Meyerburg (whom Flora thinks of as "Mr Mybug"): a writer who pursues Flora and insists that she only refuses him because she is sexually repressed; he is working on a thesis that the works of the Brontë sisters were written by their brother
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alludes specifically to a number of novels both in the past and contemporarily in vogue when Gibbons was writing. According to Faye Hammill's "Cold Comfort Farm, D. H. Lawrence, and English Literary Culture Between the Wars", the works of
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Although the book was published in 1932, the setting is an unspecified near future, shortly after the "Anglo-Nicaraguan wars of 1946". It refers to future social and demographic changes, such as the changing neighbourhoods of London:
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19th-century and early 20th-century literature, each of the farm's inhabitants has some long-festering emotional problem caused by ignorance, hatred, or fear, and the farm is badly run. Flora, being a level-headed, urban woman in the
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That silly child! Did she really think she could write a novel? Well, of course, modern novels might encourage her to think so. There was nothing written nowadays worth reading. The book on her knee was called
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and West Country accents – another parody of novelists who use phonics to portray various accents and dialects) and is sprinkled with fake but authentic-sounding local vocabulary such as
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Elfine: an intellectual, nature-loving girl of the Starkadder family, who is besotted with the local squire Richard Hawk-Monitor of Hautcouture (pronounced "Howchiker") Hall
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Amos's half-cousins: Mica, married to Susan; Urk, who expects to marry Elfine and is devoted to water-voles; Ezra, married to Jane; Caraway, married to Lettie; Harkaway
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tradition, determines that she must apply modern common sense to their problems and help them adapt to the 20th century – bringing metropolitan values into the sticks.
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The book contains technological developments that Gibbons thought might have been invented by then, such as TV phones and air-taxis, so the novel has been compared to
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Ada Doom: Judith's mother, a reclusive, miserly widow, owner of the farm, who constantly complains of having seen "something nasty in the woodshed" when she was a girl
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was the first) was published in 1940. It is a prequel of sorts, set before Flora's arrival at the farm, and is a parody of a typical family Christmas.
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relatives", and settles on visiting her distant relatives at the isolated Cold Comfort Farm in the fictional village of Howling in
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Claud Hart-Harris: urbane friend of Flora's whom she summons to accompany her, Seth and Elfine to a ball at Hautcouture Hall
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Amos Starkadder: Judith's husband and hellfire preacher at the Church of the Quivering Brethren ("Ye're all damned!")
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was the narrator. This BBC adaptation was released on VHS but as of April 2014 is no longer available commercially.
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Her portrayal of libidinous Meyerburg, "Mr Mybug", may have been aimed at Hampstead intellectuals (particularly
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Reuben Starkadder: Amos's heir, jealous of anyone who might stand between him and his inheritance of the farm
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In 1968 a television serial was made, dramatised by David Turner in three 45 minute episodes. It starred
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by suggesting an astringent counterblast might be found by "looking for an old copy of Stella Gibbons's
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Seth Starkadder: younger son of Amos and Judith, handsome and over-sexed, with a passion for the movies
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Judith Starkadder: Flora's cousin, wife of Amos, with an unhealthy preoccupation for her own son Seth
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Graceless, Aimless, Feckless, and Pointless: the farm's cows and Adam Lambsbreath's chief charge
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In 1981, the BBC produced a four-part radio adaptation by Elizabeth Proud, who also narrated.
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Amos's half-brothers: Luke, married to Prue; Mark, divorced from Susan and married to Phoebe
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are the chief influence: she considered that the farm is modelled on Dormer House in Webb's
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Flora Poste: the heroine, a nineteen-year-old from London whose parents have recently died
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Mrs Beetle: Meriam's mother, cleaning lady, rather more sensible than the Starkadders
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The speech of the Sussex characters is a parody of rural dialects (in particular
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Mrs Hawk-Monitor: initially far from being pleased at her son's choice of bride
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Adam Lambsbreath: 90-year-old farm hand, obsessed with his cows and with Elfine
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to name her home "Cold Comfort", and to name her philanthropic foundation
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was produced that was generally well received by critics. Janet Maslin in
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wrote that this screen version "gets it exactly right". The film starred
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The reveal kickstarts the BBC's year-long celebration of literature.
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Big Business: the bull, who spends most of his time inside the barn
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Charles Fairford: Flora's cousin in London, studying to become a
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Pearce, H. (2008) "Sheila's Response to Cold Comfort Farm",
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Meriam Beetle: hired girl and mother of Seth's four children
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the whole thing was too ridiculous and impossible for words.
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again played Mrs. Beetle. The 1995 version was produced by
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played Mrs. Beetle. In January 1983, a 2-part sequel,
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in its description of his physiognomy and nameplay.
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Stella Gibbons
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