Cold Comfort Farm

Cold Comfort Farm is a comic novel by Stella Gibbons, published in 1932. It parodies the romanticized, doom-laden accounts of rural life in some novels. The most immediate model was the work of Mary Webb. Gibbons was working for the Evening Standard in 1928 when they decided to serialise Webb's first novel, The Golden Arrow, and had the job of summarising the plot of earlier instalments. More talented novelists in the tradition parodied by Cold Comfort Farm are D. H. Lawrence and Thomas Hardy; and going further back, the Brontë sisters.

Adaptations

Cold Comfort Farm has been adapted for television twice. In 1968 a three-episode mini-series was made, starring Sarah Badel as Flora Poste. In 1995 there was a made for TV movie, starring Kate Beckinsale as Flora.

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1968 - Sarah Badel - 1995 - Kate Beckinsale

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The BBC produced a four-part radio adaptation (tapes of the adaptation are copyrighted 1989, though the series was broadcast before that date).Miriam Margolyes played Mrs. Beetle,

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BBC - Miriam Margolyes

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In January 1983, a sequel, set several years later, when Flora is married with several children, Conference at Cold Comfort Farm was broadcast (Part one: "There have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm", and part 2: "Reuben's Oath - or Seven Good Men and True").

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