What did Aunt Ada see in the woodshed?

Reference to Cold Comfort Farm usually triggers the famous quote that there was ‘something nasty in the woodshed’. Aunt Ada Doom claims to have seen it when she was ‘no bigger than a titty wren’.

What is Cold Comfort Farm a parody of?

Cold Comfort Farm is a parody of the doomy, tragic, close-to-the-earth gothic novels of writers like Mary Webb and DH Lawrence, and, earlier, Thomas Hardy.

When was Cold Comfort Farm written?

September 8, 1932
Cold Comfort Farm/Originally published

What is the theme of Cold Comfort Farm?

Cold Comfort Farm makes fun of the “Dominant Grandmother Theme” which Flora recognizes is “found in all typical novels of agricultural life”. Like the other characters, Aunt Ada Doom is presented in the extreme, claiming madness for something she saw in the woodshed when she was only two years old.

How does Cold Comfort Farm End?

After all Flora’s meddling has come to fruition and the farm is tidied up, Flora seeks her own happy ending. Like a fairytale, Charles, the man she loves, comes to pick her up in his airplane and they declare life-long love toward one another as they return to London.

What is in the woodshed?

The British-English phrase something nasty in the woodshed and variants are used to denote a traumatic or unpleasant experience in a person’s history, or something, especially something shocking or distasteful, that is or has been concealed or kept secret.

What happens in Cold Comfort Farm?

Orphaned and broke at nineteen, she decides to live with relatives she has never met on a farm in Sussex. She discovers the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm are in a bad state as the farm is supposedly cursed and tightly controlled by the matriarch, Aunt Ada Doom, who never leaves her room.

How long is Cold Comfort Farm?

1h 45m
Cold Comfort Farm/Running time

What are the cows called in Cold Comfort Farm?

The Starkadders’ farm is an ominous place with a priapic bull, Big Business, and a hopeless herd of Jersey cows – Graceless, Pointless, Aimless, and Feckless – attended by several taciturn, brooding rustic inhabitants.