Cold Comfort Farm (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
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
- Principal Characters: Flora Poste, Ada Doom Starkadder, Amos Starkadder, Judith Starkadder, Seth, Reuben, Elfine
- 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
The Story:
Flora Poste’s parents died when she was nineteen, leaving her an income of one hundred pounds a year. They had provided her with an expensive education that had not prepared her to earn her living. She visited a friend near London to decide what to do and developed a warm relationship with her cousin, Charles Fairford. She wrote to various relatives to ask if she might stay with them and chose the Starkadders, an aunt and cousins who lived at Cold Comfort Farm in Howling, Sussex. Charles promised to rescue Flora in his plane whenever living on the farm became too...
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