Cold Comfort Farm (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Stella Gibbons
- First Published: 1932
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Parody
- Time of Work: Early twentieth century
- Setting: London and Sussex, England
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire, Parody
- Subjects: Love or romance, Twentieth century, Future, Religion, Rural or country life, England or English people, Farms, farmers, or farming, Wit or humor, London, Orphans or orphanages
- Locales: London, England, Sussex, England
Characters Discussed
Flora Poste, a recently orphaned young woman, nineteen years old. She is left with an endowment of one hundred pounds a year. Because her expensive education has not prepared her to earn a living, she decides to leave London and stay with relatives until she finds someone she chooses to marry. She stays with the Starkadders, an aunt and various cousins who reside at Cold Comfort Farm in Howling, Sussex. Her relatives and the farmhands are a rude, filthy, and quarrelsome bunch; the farmhouse is deteriorating, and the livestock are neglected. Flora hears...
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