· Juliet is so socially withdrawn and inept, and so gifted when it comes to maths and physics that it's tempting to assume she's autistic (at least it is now when it's a label we're all familiar with) but that doesn't seem to be what Gibbons has in mind. This Juliet just has something important to do, so important that any distraction is an inconvenience to be resented and there's simply no time or energy Author: Desperate Reader. It might take the rest of her life to find out. While Stella Gibbons was celebrated for her beloved bestseller Cold Comfort Farm, the manuscript for Pure Juliet lay unseen and forgotten until it was brought to light by her family in , and is published here for the first time in Vintage Classics/5(24). Stella Dorothea Gibbons was an English author, journalist, and poet. She established her reputation with her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm which has been reprinted many times. Although she was active as a writer for half a century, none of her later 22 novels or other literary works—which included a sequel to Cold Comfort Farm—achieved the same critical or popular success. Much of her work was long out of .
Pure Juliet and The Yellow Houses by Stella Gibbons. Cold Comfort Farm is a beloved British classic, parodying rural melodramas and giving us a loveable heroine in Flora Poste. Published in it is Gibbons' best-known novel, although she published many in her career. In , 25 years after Gibbons' death, her family discovered her book. Pure Juliet by Stella Gibbons. When Pure Juliet was published in , it was surrounded by the faint whiff of a consolation prize for fans. Apparently found amidst Gibbons' belongings after her death, there is also a train of thought that perhaps the novel wasn't quite up to scratch, or desperately needed revising. Stella, the couple's first child, was born on 5 January ; two brothers, Gerald and Lewis, followed in 19respectively. The atmosphere in the Kentish Town house echoed that of the elder Gibbons's household, and was dominated by Telford's frequent bouts of ill-temper, drinking, womanising and occasional acts of violence. Stella later described her father as "a bad man, but a good.
Juliet is unnatural not because of her intelligence but because she’s not interested in sex and everything sort of fizzles out into a somewhat underwhelming conclusion Gibbons is spectacularly good at describing the English countryside; she finds and shares the beauty in a field or a hedgerow in a way that makes her as good as any nature writer I’ve ever read, and it’s a skill she puts to good use here. “Oh dear,” said Frank. “My great aunt is dying. She wants to see you, Juliet.” Juliet rose from her tuffet, went upstairs and said: “I hear you’re dying.”. Juliet is so socially withdrawn and inept, and so gifted when it comes to maths and physics that it's tempting to assume she's autistic (at least it is now when it's a label we're all familiar with) but that doesn't seem to be what Gibbons has in mind. This Juliet just has something important to do, so important that any distraction is an inconvenience to be resented and there's simply no time or energy for anything but the work.
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