6/2/2023 0 Comments Author cold comfort farm![]() For example, it has conversations between women characters that don’t revolve around men. ![]() ![]() Certainly, Cold Comfort Farm carries some of the markers that Woolf refers to. One way of thinking about this near-future setting would be to consider Cold Comfort Farm as a work sitting on that line of development imagined by Virginia Woolf in A Room of One’s Own as stretching forward a hundred years from Life’s Adventure by Mary Carmichael (a fictional version of Marie Stopes’s Love’s Creation – A Novel ) to a point when a genuine women’s writing will be the norm. (Compare Woolf in The Years : ‘One of these days d’you think we’ll be able to see things at the end of the telephone?’ ). One character (Claud) has participated in the Anglo-Nicaraguan Wars of 1946 (Gibbons 2006: 160) and there is a telephone conversation in which Flora is visible to Claud via the ‘television dial’ at his home (Flora is in a public phone box and so doesn’t have the option of seeing the other end of the line see Gibbons 2006: 128). ![]() Cold Comfort Farm is set maybe 15-20 years after its date of publication (1932). ![]()
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