Health, Sports & Psychology
A reader's guide to Cold Comfort Farm
...course and offered itself to parody. Writers such as Mary Webb irritated her, so she offered an alternative vision of country living. Stock characters – the religious bigot, the overbearing matriarch, the local Lothario etc. – were reinvented. There are passages which mock the style of D.H. Lawrence: note, for example, the characters Mr Mybug and Seth Starkadder....