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Plot Summary of Cold Comfort Farm
"When Flora Poste is orphaned, she goes to live with relatives in the country - relatives who will have her because of "the wrong done" to her father. Flora finds a rural farm, replete with gritty characters and seething with imagery, and sets about tidying things up. She dispenses birth control advice to the hired girl, who gets pregnant once a year, and fashion and courtship tips to Elfine, who is in love with a local noble. Flora redirects careers, redistributes resources, and gets her curtains cleaned. She even manages, with application of travel and fashion magazines, to break Aunt Ada Doom's (who "saw something nasty in the woodshed" in her youth) hold on the family and the farm. A direct and funny answer to D.H. Lawrence, Thomas Hardy, and their disciples.
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Ivy, Resident Scholar



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Plot
Tone of book? - upbeat
Time/era of story - 1900-1920's
Romance/Romance Problems Yes
Family, struggle with Yes
Struggle with: - Aunt - Cousin
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Lover is - of a different social class

Main Character
Gender - Female
Profession/status: - unemployed
Age: - 20's-30's
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - Female
Age: - 60's-90's
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - a little/some
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 7 ()
Europe Yes
European country: - England/UK
Small town? Yes
Small town people: - dumb Rednecks, like Gomer Pyle - hostile, like Gomer Pyle on steroids - sinister, like an X-Files Gomer Pyle

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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