Stella Gibbons even visit literary squares, or love in literary triangles". Truss posits further reasons why Gibbons did not become a literary canon. Because she was a woman who wrote amusingly, she was classified as "middlebrow"; furthermore, she was published by Longmans, a non-literary publisher. Her lampooning of the literary establishment in the spoof dedication of "Cold Comfort Farm" to one "Anthony Pookworthy" did not amuse that establishment, who were further offended by the book's mockery of the writing of such canonical figures as Lawrence and Hardy—hence Virginia Woolf's reaction to the "Prix Étranger" award. Her belief in what she called "the
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