Stella Gibbons unhappy childhood. After an indifferent school career she trained as a journalist, and worked as a reporter and features writer, mainly for the "Evening Standard" and "The Lady". Her first book, published in 1930, was a collection of poems which was well received, and through her life she considered herself primarily a poet rather than a novelist. After "Cold Comfort Farm", a satire on the genre of rural-themed "loam and lovechild" novels popular in the late 1920s, most of Gibbons's novels were based within the middle-class suburban world with which she was familiar. Gibbons became a Fellow of the Royal
Stella Jones (writer) country with the play. The play was one of the first New Zealand plays to reach a wide audience, and was praised by critics. "The New Zealand Herald" newspaper wrote that it was a "compelling and first-class piece of work". Later in her career Jones wrote radio plays, including the acclaimed "Between Seasons" (1965) and "Julia's Day" (1972). She also published two papers in the "Auckland-Waikato Historical Journal" in 1979 and 1980, analysing her father's contributions to the development of newspapers in New Zealand. Stella Jones (writer) Stella Marjorie Jones (née Claridge, 5 April 1904 – 6 June 1991) was