 Gibbons became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1950 . Her style has been praised by critics for its charm , barbed humour and descriptive skill , and has led to comparison with Jane Austen . The impact of Cold Comfort Farm dominated her career , and she grew to resent her identification with the book to the exclusion of the rest of her output . Widely regarded as a one @-@ work novelist , she and her works have not been accepted into the canon of English literature — partly , other writers have suggested , because of her detachment from the literary world and her tendency to mock it . 
