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The trilogy of Lark Rise, Over to Candleford, and Candleford Green tells the story of Flora's childhood and youth during the 1880s in Lark Rise, in reality Juniper Hill, the hamlet in Oxfordshire where she was born. Lark Rise to Candleford is Flora Thompson's classic evocation of a vanished world of agricultural customs and rural culture.

Heatherley (sequel to Lark Rise to Candleford written c.'People were poorer and had not the comforts, amusements, or knowledge we have today but they were happier.'.

Still Glides the Stream ( 1948, published posthumously).

Lark Rise to Candleford ( 1945, above three novels published as a trilogy).

The books are a, if autobiographical, but fictionalised social history of rural English life in the late 19th and early 20th century and are now considered minor classics.įlora Thompson died in 1947 in Brixham, Devon and is buried at Longcross Cemetery, Dartmouth, Devon.īibliography Verse Her most famous works are the Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy, which she sent as essays to Oxford University Press in 1938 and which were published soon after. She was a keen self-taught naturalist and many of her nature articles were anthologised in 1986. She later wrote extensively, publishing short stories and magazine and newspaper articles. Not long after, in 1911, she won an essay competition in The Ladies Companion for a 300-word essay on Jane Austen.

In 1903 she married John William Thompson, with whom she had two sons and a daughter.įlora benefited from good access to books when the public library opened in Winton, in 1907. Among other post offices where Flora worked was that at Grayshott, in Hampshire, and she later moved to Bournemouth. Flora started work here in 1891, as assistant to the postmistress, Mrs. The first of these was Fringford, a village about four miles north-east of Bicester.

Flora was educated in the village Cottisford and worked in various post offices in southern England. In her books her favourite brother, Edwin, is mentioned as important companion during her childhood. She was the eldest of six children of the stonemason Albert and the nursemaid Emma Timms. She was born in Juniper Hill, a hamlet in north-east Oxfordshire.

Flora Jane Thompson ( 5 December 1876 – ) was an English novelist and poet that was famous for her semi-autobiographical trilogy about the English countryside, Lark Rise to Candleford.