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
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