![]() ![]() She decided, therefore, to stay with a friend, a Mrs. ![]() The one had not been impaired by always having her own way nor the other by the violent athletic sports in which she had been compelled to take part, but she realized that neither was adequate as an equipment for earning her keep. …Flora inherited, however, from her father a strong will and from her mother a slender ankle. 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… Classic Book Review: Cold Comfort Farm (1932) by Stella Gibbons ![]()
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