Cold Comfort Farm Summary
Stella Gibbons

Everything you need to understand or teach Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons.

  • Cold Comfort Farm Summary & Study Guide
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  • 180 Multiple Choice Questions
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Cold Comfort Farm Summary

Set primarily in Sussex, England, circa 1930s, Cold Comfort Farm is a parody of late eighteenth/early nineteenth century agricultural literature, such as novels by D.H. Lawrence and Thomas Hardy. The main character, Flora Poste, is reminiscent of Jane Austen and Bronte heroines in many regards. Orphaned and broke at nineteen, she decides to live with relatives she has never met on a farm in Sussex. She discovers the Starkadders...

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