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
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