Traveling homes in interwar modernism: "New Forms of Living" in cold comfort farm

This essay argues that as the twentieth century saw rapid and radical changes to womens experiences of and in relation to travel, there was a commensurate shift in womens experiences of and in relation to the home. The physical spaces of the home were altered by changes in architecture and design, developments in domestic technology, and social and cultural shifts. The essay focuses on Stella Gibbonss Cold Comfort Farm, which depicts a domestic sphere transformed by traveling women and a modern home that, rather than being antithetical to ideas of movement, incorporates travel into the domestic space.