“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.” YearsArtParentGraceWeekDiedExpensiveEarningPlagueAthleticEpidemicsAnnualsFloraInfluenzaCold Comfort Farm Book:Cold comfort farm Source: Cold comfort farm
“Well, when I am fifty-three or so I would like to write a novel as good as Persuasion but with a modern setting, of course. For the next thirty years or so I shall be collecting material for it. If anyone asks me what I work at, I shall say, 'Collecting material'. No one can object to that.” IfsWritingYearsWellsThreeCoursesNextAsksNovelModernObjectsMaterialsSettingSettingsAsk MeThirtyFiftyPersuasionCollectingThirty YearsCold Comfort Farm Author:Stella Gibbons
“Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired.” YearsHumansRaceEvolutionCuriousHuman RacePolitenessCold Comfort Farm Book:Cold comfort farm Source: Cold comfort farm
“There are some things (like first love and one’s first reviews) at which a woman in her middle years does not care to look too closely.” YearsFirstsLooksDoeCareMiddleReviewsFirst LoveCold Comfort Farm Book:Cold comfort farm Source: Cold comfort farm
