Stella Gibbons of Gibbons's "most enjoyable and vicious" satirical portraits. In her introduction to the book's 2011 reprint, Lynne Truss describes it as "a rich, mature novel, romantic and wistful, full of rounded characters and terrific dialogue" that deserved more commercial success than it received. The public's expectations were still prejudiced by "Cold Comfort Farm", which by 1949 had sold 28,000 copies in hardback and 315,000 in paperback. Anticipating that a sequel would be popular, that year Gibbons produced "Conference at Cold Comfort Farm", her shortest novel, in which the farm has become a conference centre and tourist attraction. There is much
Stella Corvalán Stella Corvalán Stella Corvalán Vega (1913–1994) was a Chilean writer and poet. She mainly explored the genre of poetry ascribing itself to an aesthetic stance close to surrealism. She is included together with Homero Arce, , , and others in the group of writers known as the Generation of '38. One of Corvalán's first publications was "Sombra en el aire" in 1940, which in the opinion of writer and literary critic Carlos René Correa, "stands out with signs of original class, of expressive force and of true depth." Her poetic work "is characterized by the ability to evoke the absent,