The Country Life (novel) The Country Life (novel) The Country Life is a comedic novel by Rachel Cusk, first published in 1997, which draws on Stella Gibbons' "Cold Comfort Farm" and Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre". It won a 1998 Somerset Maugham Award. The novel is a comedy that draws on both "Cold Comfort Farm" by Stella Gibbons and "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë. Stella Benson, the first-person narrator, abruptly abandons her life in London to take a position as carer to Martin, the wheelchair-bound teenage son of the wealthy and eccentric Madden family, in a farm near a small village in rural Sussex. The
Cynthia Von Doom to Earth. When Doctor Doom decided to take on the mantle of Iron Man, Cynthia von Doom watched him do that through her cauldron. Cynthia Von Doom had magic-based abilities such as a good knowledge for spells which allowed her to contact demons and make a deal with them for power. Cynthia Von Doom Cynthia Von Doom is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She is the mother of Doctor Doom. Cynthia Von Doom first appeared in "Astonishing Tales" #8 and was created by Gerry Conway, Gene Colan, and Tom Palmer. Cynthia was a