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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Cold Comfort Farm
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(1932) Novel by Stella Gibbons (1902–89) which set out to parody the earthy rural fiction then in vogue (Mary Webb's Precious Bane of 1924 being the prime example), but which achieved its own lasting fame as a comic masterpiece. The horrors of country life are discovered by a town girl, Flora Poste, when she goes to stay with her appalling rustic relations, the Starkadder family, in deepest Sussex; typical is Aunt Ada Doom who once, as she endlessly repeats, saw 'something nasty in the woodshed'.
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