Stella Gibbons of Leicestershire, suggested "Cold Comfort" as an alternative, using the name of a farm in the Hinckley area. Gibbons was delighted with the suggestion, and the work was published as "Cold Comfort Farm" in September 1932. The plot concerns the efforts of "a rational, bossy London heroine" to bring order and serenity to her rustic relations, the Starkadders, on their run-down Sussex farm. According to the "Feminist Companion to Literature in English", Gibbons's parody "[demolishes] ... the stock-in-trade of earthy regionalists such as Thomas Hardy, Mary Webb, Sheila Kaye-Smith and D. H. Lawrence". The literary scholar Faye Hammill describes the
Stella Corvalán and the ability to organize in her texts what is politically called 'the feminine', that is, the world of emotions, intuition, sensitivity tied to a knowledge of those emotions." Her work was published and recognized in various countries in Latin America and Europe, followed by renowned intellectuals such as Francis de Miomandre, Pío Baroja, and Giovanni Papini, illustrated by artists such as Agnes Van Den Brandeler in "Sinfonía del viento" (Madrid, 1951), and referenced by writers like Uruguayan Juana de Ibarbourou in the poem "A Stella Corvalán". Stella Corvalán Stella Corvalán Vega (1913–1994) was a Chilean writer and poet. She