Flora Thompson was born in in Juniper Hill in Oxfordshire, the rural hamlet that she describes in Lark Rise. She was a bookish child who dreamt of being a writer. Her mother taught her to read before she started at the village school. She left school at fourteen to work as an assistant postmistress/5(). · abundance of such foods, and even the poor enjoyed a rough plenty.' The last words are true of the hamlet of Lark Rise. Because they were still an organic community, subsisting on the food, however scanty and monotonous, they raised themselves, they enjoyed good health and so, in spite of grinding poverty, no money to spend on amusements and hardly any for necessities, happiness. They 5/5(1). · Flora Thompson ( to ) wrote what may be the quintessential distillation of English country life at the turn of the twentieth century. In , the three books Lark Rise (), Over to Candleford (), and Candleford Green () were published together in one elegant volume, and this new omnibus Nonpareil edition, complete with charming wood engravings, should be a cause for real Cited by: 5.
Lark Rise to Candleford Trilogy, a three books in one, by Flora Thompson is about the life of Laura, who is our witness in this landscape of the English country life as it slowly changes over time. Yes, we get to see the turn of the century. Er, the last century, not this century. Lark Rise to Candleford. The hamlet stood on a gentle rise in the flat, wheat-growing north-east corner of Oxfordshire. We will call it Lark Rise because of the great number of skylarks which made the surrounding fields their springboard and nested on the bare earth between the rows of green corn. Thus opens Flora Thompson's gentle. Author and poet. Notable work. Lark Rise to Candleford. Spouse (s) John William Thompson. Children. 2 sons and 1 daughter. Flora Jane Thompson (née Timms; 5 December - 21 May ) was an English novelist and poet best known for her semi-autobiographical trilogy about the English countryside, Lark Rise to Candleford.
Flora Thompson published Lark Rise in when she was in her sixties. The book was followed by Over to Candleford in and Candleford Green in Together these three volumes comprise the trilogy From Lark Rise to Candleford, which has become recognised in Britain as a classic for its evocation of English rural life in the last years of the nineteenth century and a window on a vanished world. Her most famous works are the Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy, which she sent as essays to Oxford University Press in and which were published soon after. She Flora Jane Thompson (5 December – 21 May ) was an English novelist and poet famous for her semi-autobiographical trilogy about the English countryside, Lark Rise to Candleford. Flora Thompson ( to ) wrote what may be the quintessential distillation of English country life at the turn of the twentieth century. In , the three books Lark Rise (), Over to Candleford (), and Candleford Green () were published together in one elegant volume, and this new omnibus Nonpareil edition, complete with charming wood engravings, should be a cause for real rejoicing.
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