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
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