Stella Gibbons "Cold Comfort Farm"; it mentions none of her other works—while providing her "bêtes noires" Morgan and Mary Webb with full entries. To Gibbons, "Cold Comfort Farm" became "That Book" or "You-Know-What", its title never mentioned. Despite her growing irritation and expressed distaste for it, the book continued to be lauded by successive generations of critics, Boston described it as "one of those rare books of comic genius that imprints itself on the brain and can never afterwards be eradicated". A more negative view of the book has been expressed by the literary critic Mary Beard, who considers it "a rather
Stella Richman Arnold Bennett's novel cycle The Clayhanger Family. Stella Richman married three times; her first husband was the actor Alec Clunes. With her second husband, Victor Brusa, she established the White Elephant Club, a restaurant and drinking club of which she was chairwoman from 1960-68. Stella Richman Stella Richman (9 November 1922 – 24 May 2002) was a British television producer. Originally an actress, she had a bit part in the second episode of "The Quatermass Experiment" in 1953, Richman was appointed as a script editor to work on single plays at ATV by Lew Grade in 1960. Grade's sole condition