Stella Gibbons detestation of pomposity and pretence. Truss has described Gibbons as "the Jane Austen of the 20th century", a parallel which the novelist Malcolm Bradbury thought apt; Flora Poste in "Cold Comfort Farm", with her "higher common sense", is "a Jane-ite heroine transformed into a clear-eyed modern woman". Bradbury also observed that many of Gibbons's novels end in Austen-like nuptials. Truss highlights the importance that Gibbons places on detachment as a necessary adjunct to effective writing: "Like many a good doctor, she seems to have considered sympathy a peculiar and redundant emotion, and a terrible waste of time." This matter-of-fact quality
Stella Farentino Stella Farentino Stella Farentino (born February 16, 1962) is the fourth wife of actor James Farentino and she went on to become an actress herself. A couple of years after marrying actor James Farentino, Stella Farentino began her own acting career. Her biggest role was in 2001's direct-to-video crime movie, "Hard As Nails," as, "Margo," a prostitute whom a detective gets in his car for a talk. Her most mainstream role was on television's, "Everybody Loves Raymond", as, "Anna Barone," the representative of another Barone family, who is thought to be the long lost aunt from Italy, by the American