Family Life
Gibbons married actor and singer Allan Webb in 1933. They moved to a house on the Holly Lodge Estate, Highgate, where Gibbons was to live for the remainder of her life. They had one daughter. Webb came from a family with a strong religious background and although not a practising Christian at the time she wrote Cold Comfort Farm Gibbons was to become one after her marriage.
In October 1935 Gibbons gave birth to her only child, Laura. Later that year she published her only children’s book The Untidy Gnome which was dedicated to her daughter.
Gibbons' daughter married Joseph Richardson in 1957. The marriage produced two sons, Daniel and Benjamin.
In 1958 Webb was diagnosed with liver cancer. He died in July 1959.
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