1930s Stella Gibbons

mock tudor houses on holly lodge estate, highgate, gibbons lived 1936 (2008 photograph)

during remainder of 1930s gibbons produced 5 more novels, 2 poetry collections, children s book, , number of short stories. november 1936 family home in oakshott avenue, on holly lodge estate off highgate west hill, gibbons regularly worked in mornings ten until lunchtime. novels received critics , public, though none earned accolades or attention had been given cold comfort farm; readers of times warned not expect gibbons s second novel, bassett (1934), repetition of earlier masterpiece. enbury heath (1935) relatively faithful account of childhood , adult life with, according oliver, thinnest veil of fictional gauze cover[ing] raw experience . miss linsey , pa (1936) thought nicola beauman, in analysis of women writers 1914 1939, parody radclyffe hall s 1928 lesbian novel of loneliness. gibbons s final prewar novels nightingale wood (1935)— cinderella brought right date —and american (1939), oliver considers escapist novel, variant of hans christian andersen s snow queen.

gibbons considered herself serious poet rather comic writer. published 2 collections of poetry in 1930s, latter of which, lowland verses (1938) contains marriage of machine , lament on effects of industrial pollution: oil, poison lulls/your wings , webs, cormorants , gulls? gibbons s single children s book fairy tale collection untidy gnome, published in 1935 , dedicated child laura, born year.