Stella Gibbons Society of Literature in 1950. Her style has been praised by critics for its charm, barbed humour and descriptive skill, and has led to comparison with Jane Austen. The impact of "Cold Comfort Farm" dominated her career, and she grew to resent her identification with the book to the exclusion of the rest of her output. Widely regarded as a one-work novelist, she and her works have not been accepted into the canon of English literature—partly, other writers have suggested, because of her detachment from the literary world and her tendency to mock it. The Gibbons family originated in Ireland.
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