Stella Gibbons flashes of the novels' wit". Such lines as "my thoughts, like purple parrots / Brood / In the sick light" come dangerously close indeed to the overblown rhetoric she satirized in "Cold Comfort Farm": "How like yaks were your drowsy thoughts". The immediate and enduring success of "Cold Comfort Farm" dominated the rest of Gibbons's career. Neville thought that after so singular a success at the start of her career, the rest was something of an anticlimax, despite her considerable industry and undoubted skills. The 1985 edition of "The Oxford Companion to English Literature" defines Gibbons solely in terms of
Stella Richman Arnold Bennett's novel cycle The Clayhanger Family. Stella Richman married three times; her first husband was the actor Alec Clunes. With her second husband, Victor Brusa, she established the White Elephant Club, a restaurant and drinking club of which she was chairwoman from 1960-68. Stella Richman Stella Richman (9 November 1922 – 24 May 2002) was a British television producer. Originally an actress, she had a bit part in the second episode of "The Quatermass Experiment" in 1953, Richman was appointed as a script editor to work on single plays at ATV by Lew Grade in 1960. Grade's sole condition