Question
This author wrote a novel in which rooms of the title property are labeled “Quiete Retreate” and “Greate laundrie,” which the protagonist says is like “being locked in the Victoria and Albert Museum after closing time.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author who wrote a novel in which the protagonist's Aunt Ada sees "something nasty in the woodshed" as a parody of authors including Sheila Kaye-Smith.
ANSWER: Stella Gibbons [or Stella Dorothea Gibbons]
[10e] Gibbons included Aunt Ada and Flora Poste in a novel about a Cold Comfort one of these places, another of which is the home of Snowball and Napoleon in a George Orwell novel.
ANSWER: farms
[10m] Cold Comfort Farm may have been a parody of John Cowper Powys' novel Wolf Solent, which takes place in a region with this name. While studying in Christminster, a resident of a county with this name falls in love with Sue Bridehead.
ANSWER: Wessex (the second novel is Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure.)
<Noah Sheidlower, British Literature>
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