![]() ![]() Where, for Webb or Hardy, a misstep, malformation or sin inexorably predicts a wasted, prematurely-ended life, or at least an awful lot of misery, Gibbons rolls up her sleeves and blithely enters the tragic landscape, tidying it up and setting things to rights. ![]() Once ensconced, she addresses herself to hygienic interference in the affairs of the clan: poetical, unkempt, sensationally beautiful Elfine amorous Seth, who secretly loves the talkies better than the myriad women he gets up the duff fiercely territorial Reuben and the unforgettable Great-Aunt Ada, who once saw "something narsty in the woodshed" and has been reclining in bed ever since on four tray-meals a day, directing operations.Ĭold Comfort Farm is a parody of the doomy, tragic, close-to-the-earth gothic novels of writers like Mary Webb and DH Lawrence, and, earlier, Thomas Hardy. ![]()
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