Cold Comfort Farm [SEP] narrative location
either by society or one's own conscience, to the amount one may impose on one's relatives", and settles on visiting her distant relatives at the isolated Cold Comfort Farm in the fictional village of Howling in Sussex. The inhabitants of the farm – Aunt Ada Doom, the Starkadders, and their extended family and workers – feel obliged to take her in to atone for an unspecified wrong once done to her father.
As is typical in a certain genre of romantic 19th-century and early 20th-century literature
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Other novels.
1940 saw the publication of "Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm" (actually a collection of short stories, of which "Christmas" was the first). It is a prequel of sorts, set before Flora's arrival at the farm, and is a parody of a typical family Christmas.
A sequel, "Conference at Cold Comfort Farm", was published in 1949 to mixed reviews.
Adaptations.
"Cold Comfort Farm" has been adapted several times, including twice by