It amused her and when she was defeated, she withdrew in good order and lost interest in the campaign.”įlora Poste is a well-educated, London society girl, who is very witty, very flippant, very facetious. “She detested rows and scenes, but enjoyed quietly pitting her cool will against opposition. Emma Woodhouse Meets Mary Poppins in Flora Poste
But all this is simply emphasizing the themes of modernity versus tradition, of urban versus rural. It is also a futuristic novel, set in the near future (from 1932), after the fictional Anglo-Nicaraguan War of 1946, in which there are TV phones, and people jet around in private planes, flying themselves here and there.Īnd despite all these technologies, people are still using horses and trains and writing letters and on it goes. Cold Comfort Farm is a comedic novel, a gentle parody of romantic pastoral novels, of societal mores and the like. Thus, begins Cold Comfort Farm, setting the tone for this tale of one young busybody, Miss Flora Poste. RELATED: COLD COMFORT FARM (1995) FILM REVIEW – KATE BECKINSALE’S CRAZY FAMILY TREE Smiling, at her house in Lambeth until she could decide where to bestow herself and her hundred pounds a year. She decided, therefore, to stay with a friend, a Mrs. The one had not been impaired by always having her own way nor the other by the violent athletic sports in which she had been compelled to take part, but she realized that neither was adequate as an equipment for earning her keep. …Flora inherited, however, from her father a strong will and from her mother a slender ankle. The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of the influenza or Spanish Plague which occurred in her twentieth year, she was discovered to possess every art and grace save that of earning her own living… Classic Book Review: Cold Comfort Farm (1932) by Stella Gibbons
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