She then worked for ten years on various papers, including the Evening Standard. She went to the North London Collegiate School and studied. She went to the North London Collegiate School and studied journalism at University College, London. Although the age difference inspired a certain amount of winking in the gossip columns at the time, the marriage proved a strong one and lasted until Gibbons death in 1960. Stella Dorothea Gibbons, novelist, poet and short-story writer, was born in London in 1902. Starring Victoria Hamilton and Francine Chamberlain.ĭramatised in two-parts by Christopher William Hill.įirst broadcast in the ‘Neglected Classics’ season on BBC Radio 4 in 2011. Stella Dorothea Gibbons, novelist, poet and short-story writer, was born in London in 1902. Stella Gibbons’ sparkling comedy of manners. Her shop girl sister-in-law, Viola, has fallen for Victor Spring, the lord of the manor. In spite of her scheming ways and the desire to change people’s lives and make them more full of order, Flora, Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she.
On either side of Nightingale Wood through one idyllic year in the late 1930s, hearts beat and minds scheme, as the dowdy Wither family tries to compete with the glittering Springs.īookish Tina Wither is in love with Saxon, her father's handsome and aloof chauffeur.
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