Stella Gibbons many years, when in 1965 she contributed an essay to "Light on C.S. Lewis", a review of that writer's work edited by Jocelyn Gibb. In 1966 she wrote an essay for "Punch", "Genesis of a Novel", in which she mused on the detrimental effect of "Cold Comfort Farm" on her long term career. She likened the book to "some unignorable old uncle, to whom you have to be grateful because he makes you a handsome allowance, but is often an embarrassment and a bore". Gibbons made her last overseas trip in 1966, to Grenoble in France where she visited her
Thomas Gibbons (hymn writer) Gibbons was satirised in "An Epistle to the Rev. Mr. Tho. G-bb-ns on his Juvenilia" (1750); and also by Robert Sanders in "Gaffer Greybeard" as "Dr. Hymnmaker". Samuel Johnson enjoyed his society. Gibbons's writings included: A favourite form of composition was elegies on the death of his friends and others. A list of between forty and fifty works by Gibbons was in the "Protestant Dissenters' Magazine", ii. 492, 493, and in Walter Wilson's "Dissenting Churches", iii. 181, 182. Thomas Gibbons (hymn writer) Dr. Thomas Gibbons (1720–1785) was a London nonconformist minister who wrote hymns, sermons, and poetry. He was the