Quote of the day
The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.
Stella Gibbons
Born: January 5, 1902
Died: December 19, 1989 (aged 87)
Bio: Stella Dorothea Gibbons was an English author, journalist, and poet. She established her reputation with her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm, which won the literary Prix Femina Étranger and has been reprinted many times.
Known for:
- Cold Comfort Farm (1932)
- Nightingale Wood (1938)
- Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm (1940)
- Conference at Cold Comfort Farm (1949)
- The matchmaker (1949)