"he was interred in the family vault. Emily Brontë died of tuberculosis on 19 December of that year and Anne Brontë on 29 May 1849 in the coastal resort of Scarborough. Charlotte, the last living sister, married the Reverend Arthur Bell Nichols, curate of Haworth, in 1854 and died in March 1855, because of pregnancy complications. In Stella Gibbons' novel ""Cold Comfort Farm"" (1932), the character Mr. Mybug is introduced as writing a psychological study of Branwell Brontë intended to show that Branwell wrote ""Wuthering Heights"". In Pauline Clarke's novel ""The Twelve and the Genii"" (called ""The Return of the"
"of Leicestershire, suggested ""Cold Comfort"" as an alternative, using the name of a farm in the Hinckley area. Gibbons was delighted with the suggestion, and the work was published as ""Cold Comfort Farm"" in September 1932. The plot concerns the efforts of ""a rational, bossy London heroine"" to bring order and serenity to her rustic relations, the Starkadders, on their run-down Sussex farm. According to the ""Feminist Companion to Literature in English"", Gibbons's parody ""[demolishes] ... the stock-in-trade of earthy regionalists such as Thomas Hardy, Mary Webb, Sheila Kaye-Smith and D. H. Lawrence"". The literary scholar Faye Hammill describes the"
"Guy Clutton-Brock Arthur Guy Clutton-Brock (5 April 1906 – 29 January 1995), generally known as Guy Clutton-Brock, was an English social worker who became a Zimbabwean nationalist and co-founder of Cold Comfort Farm. Born in Norhwood, London, and educated at Rugby School, he graduated from Magdalene College, Cambridge. He had a career in the prison and probation services, youth and community work in the East End of London and in post-war Germany. During the Second World War he ran Oxford House, Bethnal Green, 1940–44, with the assistance of John Raven, Peter Kuenstler and later Merfyn Turner, all four being conscientious"
"Mary Webb Mary Gladys Webb (25 March 1881 – 8 October 1927) was an English romantic novelist and poet of the early 20th century, whose work is set chiefly in the Shropshire countryside and among Shropshire characters and people whom she knew. Her novels have been successfully dramatized, most notably the film ""Gone to Earth"" in 1950 by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. They inspired the famous parody ""Cold Comfort Farm"". She was born Mary Gladys Meredith in 1881 at Leighton Lodge in the Shropshire village of Leighton, 8 miles (13 km) southeast of Shrewsbury. Her father, George Edward Meredith,"
"was published in 1949 to mixed reviews. ""Cold Comfort Farm"" has been adapted several times, including twice by BBC television. In 1968 a three-part serial was made, starring Sarah Badel as Flora Poste, Brian Blessed as Reuben, Peter Egan as Seth, and Alastair Sim as Amos. Joan Bakewell was the narrator. This BBC adaptation was released on VHS but as of April 2014 is no longer available commercially. In 1981, the BBC produced a four-part radio adaptation by Elizabeth Proud, who also narrated. Patricia Gallimore played Flora, and Miriam Margolyes played Mrs. Beetle. In January 1983, a 2-part sequel, ""There"
"psychology. She won the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse for ""Precious Bane"". After her death that Stanley Baldwin, then Prime Minister, brought about her commercial success through his approbation; at a Literary Fund dinner in 1928, Baldwin referred to her as a neglected genius. Consequently her collected works were republished in a standard edition by Jonathan Cape, becoming best sellers in the 1930s and running into many editions. Stella Gibbons's 1932 novel ""Cold Comfort Farm"" was a parody of Webb's work, as well as of other ""loam and lovechild"" writers like Sheila Kaye-Smith and Mary E. Mann and, further back, Thomas"
"full-time writing career. In March 1931 Gibbons had become engaged to Allan Webb, a budding actor and opera singer five years her junior. He was the son of a cricketing parson, and the grandson of Allan Becher Webb, a former Bishop of Bloemfontein who served as Dean of Salisbury Cathedral. On 1 April 1933 the couple were married at St Matthew's, Bayswater. Later that year she learned that ""Cold Comfort Farm"" had been awarded the ""Prix Étranger"", the foreign novel category of the prestigious French literary prize, the ""Prix Femina"". It had won against works by two more experienced writers,"
"the Mary Webb Society, was unveiled in the grounds of Shrewsbury Library on 9 July 2016. Mary Webb Mary Gladys Webb (25 March 1881 – 8 October 1927) was an English romantic novelist and poet of the early 20th century, whose work is set chiefly in the Shropshire countryside and among Shropshire characters and people whom she knew. Her novels have been successfully dramatized, most notably the film ""Gone to Earth"" in 1950 by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. They inspired the famous parody ""Cold Comfort Farm"". She was born Mary Gladys Meredith in 1881 at Leighton Lodge in the"
"apply modern common sense to their problems and help them adapt to the 20th century – bringing metropolitan values into the sticks. As parody of the ""loam and lovechild"" genre, ""Cold Comfort Farm"" alludes specifically to a number of novels both in the past and currently 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 Sheila Kaye-Smith and Mary Webb are the chief influence: she considered that the farm is modelled on Dormer House in Webb's ""The House in Dormer Forest"", and Aunt"
"""Cold Comfort Farm""; it mentions none of her other works—while providing her ""bêtes noires"" Morgan and Mary Webb with full entries. To Gibbons, ""Cold Comfort Farm"" became ""That Book"" or ""You-Know-What"", its title never mentioned. Despite her growing irritation and expressed distaste for it, the book continued to be lauded by successive generations of critics, Boston described it as ""one of those rare books of comic genius that imprints itself on the brain and can never afterwards be eradicated"". A more negative view of the book has been expressed by the literary critic Mary Beard, who considers it ""a rather"
"quotes a call from Kansas State Penitentiary where Smith says, ""Being brought up one way and trying to see another way is very difficult."" Perry Edward Smith Perry Edward Smith (October 27, 1928 – April 14, 1965) was one of two ex-convicts convicted of murdering four members of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, United States, on November 15, 1959, a crime made famous by Truman Capote in his 1966 non-fiction novel ""In Cold Blood"". Along with Richard Hickock, Smith took part in the burglary of the Clutter family farmhouse. Perry Edward Smith was born in Huntington, Nevada, a now-abandoned"
"In Cold Blood In Cold Blood is a non-fiction novel by American author Truman Capote, first published in 1966; it details the 1959 murders of four members of the Herbert Clutter family in the small farming community of Holcomb, Kansas. When Capote learned of the quadruple murder, before the killers were captured, he decided to travel to Kansas and write about the crime. He was accompanied by his childhood friend and fellow author Harper Lee, and together they interviewed local residents and investigators assigned to the case and took thousands of pages of notes. The killers, Richard ""Dick"" Hickock and"
"Cold Comfort (film) Cold Comfort is a Canadian psychological thriller film, released in 1989. The film was written by Richard Beattie and Elliot L. Sims based on the play by James Garrard, and directed by Vic Sarin. The film's cast also includes Jayne Eastwood, Ted Follows, Richard Fitch and Grant Roll. Stephen Paul Gross is a salesman who gets drawn into a sexual psychodrama between Floyd (Maury Chaykin), a sociopathic truck driver, and his daughter Dolores (Margaret Langrick), when the three are caught together in a blizzard. The film won a Genie Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 1990"
"unhappy childhood. After an indifferent school career she trained as a journalist, and worked as a reporter and features writer, mainly for the ""Evening Standard"" and ""The Lady"". Her first book, published in 1930, was a collection of poems which was well received, and through her life she considered herself primarily a poet rather than a novelist. After ""Cold Comfort Farm"", a satire on the genre of rural-themed ""loam and lovechild"" novels popular in the late 1920s, most of Gibbons's novels were based within the middle-class suburban world with which she was familiar. Gibbons became a Fellow of the Royal"
"at Cold Comfort Farm"", failed to equal the impact of the original. When the collection was reissued many years later it was described as ""oddly comforting and amusing ... and possibly a truer depiction of the times than we might think"". Gibbons published three novels during the war: ""The Rich House"" (1941), ""Ticky"" (1942) and ""The Bachelor"" (1944). ""Ticky"", a satire on mid-nineteenth century army life, was Gibbons's favourite of all her novels, although she acknowledged that hardly anyone liked it. It failed commercially, despite a favourable review in ""The Times Literary Supplement"". Oliver surmises that ""the middle of the"
"in the 2005 film ""Capote""; and by Lee Pace in the 2006 film ""Infamous"". Richard Hickock Richard Eugene ""Dick"" Hickock (June 6, 1931 – April 14, 1965) was one of two ex-convicts convicted of murdering four members of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, United States, on November 15, 1959, a crime made famous by Truman Capote in his 1966 non-fiction novel ""In Cold Blood"". Along with Perry Edward Smith, Hickock took part in the burglary of the Clutter family farmhouse. Richard Eugene Hickock was born in Kansas City, Kansas, to farmworker parents, Walter Sr. and Eunice Hickock. He was"
"of D. H. Lawrence. Sheila Kaye-Smith, often said to be one of the rural writers parodied by Gibbons in ""Cold Comfort Farm"", arguably gets her own back with a tongue-in-cheek reference to ""Cold Comfort Farm"" within a subplot of ""A Valiant Woman"" (1939), set in a rapidly modernising village. Upper middle-class teenager, Lucia, turns from writing charming rural poems to a great Urban Proletarian Novel: ""… all about people who aren't married going to bed in a Manchester slum and talking about the Means Test."" Her philistine grandmother is dismayed: she prefers ""cosy"" rural novels, and knows Lucia is ignorant"
"Richard Hickock Richard Eugene ""Dick"" Hickock (June 6, 1931 – April 14, 1965) was one of two ex-convicts convicted of murdering four members of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, United States, on November 15, 1959, a crime made famous by Truman Capote in his 1966 non-fiction novel ""In Cold Blood"". Along with Perry Edward Smith, Hickock took part in the burglary of the Clutter family farmhouse. Richard Eugene Hickock was born in Kansas City, Kansas, to farmworker parents, Walter Sr. and Eunice Hickock. He was a popular student and an athlete at Olathe High School before head injuries from"
"Truman Capote Truman Garcia Capote (; born Truman Streckfus Persons, September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, including the novella ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" (1958) and the true crime novel ""In Cold Blood"" (1966), which he labeled a ""nonfiction novel"". At least 20 films and television dramas have been produced from his work. Capote rose above a childhood troubled by divorce, a long absence from his mother, and multiple migrations. He had discovered his calling as"
"Comfort Farm in Southern Rhodesia, which became a widely acclaimed pattern for racial freedom and regeneration in the poverty-stricken countries of Africa. He was deported by the Ian Smith government in 1971, though by now he was the friend of four African presidents, Kenneth Kaunda (Zambia), Julius Nyerere (Tanzania), Hastings Banda (Malawi) and Seretse Khama (Botswana), as well as Robert Mugabe, who, as President of Zimbabwe, declared Clutton-Brock upon his death to be a National Hero of Zimbabwe. Guy Clutton-Brock Arthur Guy Clutton-Brock (5 April 1906 – 29 January 1995), generally known as Guy Clutton-Brock, was an English social worker"
"of Gibbons's ""most enjoyable and vicious"" satirical portraits. In her introduction to the book's 2011 reprint, Lynne Truss describes it as ""a rich, mature novel, romantic and wistful, full of rounded characters and terrific dialogue"" that deserved more commercial success than it received. The public's expectations were still prejudiced by ""Cold Comfort Farm"", which by 1949 had sold 28,000 copies in hardback and 315,000 in paperback. Anticipating that a sequel would be popular, that year Gibbons produced ""Conference at Cold Comfort Farm"", her shortest novel, in which the farm has become a conference centre and tourist attraction. There is much"
"a film based on the Danish legend which inspired Shakespeare's ""Hamlet"", and starred in the murder mystery ""Uncovered"". In 1995, while studying in Paris, she filmed the French language """". Shortly after leaving Oxford University in 1995, Beckinsale starred in ""Cold Comfort Farm"" as Flora Poste, a newly orphaned 1930s socialite sent to live with distant family members in rural England. The John Schlesinger-directed film was an adaptation of Stella Gibbons's novel and also featured Joanna Lumley, Eileen Atkins, Ian McKellen, Rufus Sewell and Stephen Fry. Beckinsale was initially considered too young, but was cast after she wrote a pleading"
"relatives at the isolated Cold Comfort Farm in the fictional village of Howling in Sussex. The inhabitants of the farm – Aunt Ada Doom, the Starkadders, and their extended family and workers – feel obliged to take her in to atone for an unspecified wrong once done to her father. As is typical in a certain genre of romantic 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 dandy tradition, determines that she must"
"Society of Literature in 1950. Her style has been praised by critics for its charm, barbed humour and descriptive skill, and has led to comparison with Jane Austen. The impact of ""Cold Comfort Farm"" dominated her career, and she grew to resent her identification with the book to the exclusion of the rest of her output. Widely regarded as a one-work novelist, she and her works have not been accepted into the canon of English literature—partly, other writers have suggested, because of her detachment from the literary world and her tendency to mock it. The Gibbons family originated in Ireland."
"Sally Prue Sally Prue is a British author known for her novel ""Cold Tom"", which won the Branford Boase Award 2002 and the Smarties Prize Silver Award in 2002. Sally Prue has written eight novels. Sally Prue was adopted as a baby and brought up in Hertfordshire, England. She attended Nash Mills and Longdean Schools, and afterwards she began to work at a paper mill with the rest of her family. Her first real job was as a clerk and following that as a time and motion person. She was forced to quit the job due to pregnancy with her"
"Perry Edward Smith Perry Edward Smith (October 27, 1928 – April 14, 1965) was one of two ex-convicts convicted of murdering four members of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, United States, on November 15, 1959, a crime made famous by Truman Capote in his 1966 non-fiction novel ""In Cold Blood"". Along with Richard Hickock, Smith took part in the burglary of the Clutter family farmhouse. Perry Edward Smith was born in Huntington, Nevada, a now-abandoned community in Elko County. His parents, Florence Julia ""Flo"" Buckskin and John ""Tex"" Smith, were rodeo performers. Smith was of mixed Irish and Cherokee"
"Cold Blood""'s title is based on the book. The book was adapted into a two-part 1996 television miniseries starring Anthony Edwards, Eric Roberts, and Sam Neill, portraying, respectively, Dick Hickock, Perry Smith, and Alvin Dewey. Oni Press published a graphic novel, ""Capote in Kansas"", by Ande Parks and Chris Samnee, in 2005. In Cold Blood In Cold Blood is a non-fiction novel by American author Truman Capote, first published in 1966; it details the 1959 murders of four members of the Herbert Clutter family in the small farming community of Holcomb, Kansas. When Capote learned of the quadruple murder, before"
"that Henry James and James Joyce dreamed of but never achieved. The essential difference between the new nonfiction and conventional reporting is, he said, that the basic unit of reporting was no longer the datum or piece of information but the scene. Scene is what underlies ""the sophisticated strategies of prose."" The first of the new breed of nonfiction writers to receive wide notoriety was Truman Capote, whose 1965 best-seller, ""In Cold Blood"", was a detailed narrative of the murder of a Kansas farm family. Capote culled material from some 6,000 pages of notes. The book brought its author instant"
"character of Sussex and its dialect and customs eroded, but its people enjoyed a wealthier standard of living. Poverty and isolation had been key to the strength of a distinct Sussex identity; once they were removed, that identity weakened. Sussex's reputation for distinctiveness is repeated in literature. In Stella Gibbons's novel ""Cold Comfort Farm"", Flora Poste, the central character muses that ""Sussex, when all said and done, is not quite like other counties"". Some have suggested that the distinct cultural Sussex identity is fast diminishing, as parts of the county under urban sprawl. Peter Brandon suggested in 2010 that Sussex"
"before finishing the manuscript, and the uncompleted novel was published in 1992 along with her notes. Olive Ann Burns Olive Ann Burns (July 17, 1924 – July 4, 1990) was an American writer from Georgia best known for her single completed novel, ""Cold Sassy Tree"", published in 1984. Olive Ann Burns was born in Banks County, Georgia. Her father was a farmer but was forced to sell his farm in 1931 during the Great Depression. The Burns family then moved to Commerce, Georgia. Burns attended Mercer University, where she wrote for the college magazine. Her sophomore year she transferred to"
"people who aren't married going to bed in a Manchester slum and talking about the Means Test."" Her philistine grandmother is dismayed as she prefers cosy rural novels, and knows Lucia is ignorant of proletarian life: 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 Cold Comfort Farm and had been written by a young woman who was said to be very clever and had won an important literary prize. But she"
"then leases it to less-than-caring tenants, its concern for the land continued as Bromfield returned to the United States and made Malabar Farm a model of sustainable agriculture. The Farm (Bromfield novel) The Farm is a 1933 novel by Louis Bromfield. Written just before Bromfield's return from decades of living and writing in Europe, the novel reflects the agrarian interests that would dominate the author's thinking during the last two decades of his life. David Anderson describes it as Bromfield's best work but one, like many after the author's early successes, too little appreciated. ""The unfair criticisms of the early"
"books about Jane Austen), Thomas Hardy, and Noël Coward. Kaye-Smith's novels straddle more than one genre of fiction. Her earliest novels partly fit into the 'earthy' rural category, together with that of Mary E Mann, Mary Webb, D. H. Lawrence, and Thomas Hardy, a genre which inspired Stella Gibbons's parody ""Cold Comfort Farm."" For her part, Kaye-Smith refers critically to ""Cold Comfort Farm"" in ""A Valiant Woman"" (1939), which is set in a rapidly modernising village (Pearce, 2008). In a subplot, upper middle-class teenager, Lucia, turns from writing twee rural poems to the great Urban Proletarian Novel: ""… all about"