![]() ![]() If anyone asks me what I work at, I shall say, “Collecting material.” No one can object to that. ![]() For the next thirty years or so I shall be collecting material for it. 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. She’s a great fan of Jane Austen, and not at all a fan of getting a job: Flora likes things to be fun and cheerful, but also tidy. In Cold Comfort Farm, our heroine, Flora, becomes an orphan and decides to sponge off of her relatives instead of getting a job. Early versions of this genre include the works of Thomas Hardy and of course Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. Oh, Cold Comfort Farm, where have you been all my life? This classic went completely past my radar and now that I’ve found it I’m actually surprised that it’s not dedicated to me, specifically.Ĭold Comfort Farm, published in 1932, pokes gentle fun at the sub-genre of novels that dwells on misery and melodrama on English farms. ![]()
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