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Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful.
Stella Gibbons
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Stella Gibbons
Age: 87 †
Born: 1902
Born: January 5
Died: 1989
Died: December 19
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Journalist
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London
England
Stella Dorothea Gibbons
Mrs A. B. Webb
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Bossed
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Restful
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Everybody
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