· 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. 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(). · Lark Rise is the first book in a semi-autobiographical trilogy by Flora Thompson about her childhood in an English hamlet in the later s. She writes some forty years later, looking back on a quiet, pastoral life that was later marked by great www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 4 mins.
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. In Flora at last sent several essays on her country childhood to Oxford University Press. The publisher accepted them, and they were published in three separate volumes, Lark Rise (), Over to Candleford (), and Candleford Green (). In the books were republished as a trilogy under the title Lark Rise to Candleford. Lark Rise to Candleford, a trilogy by Flora Thompson (see also Heatherley) Penguin Modern Classics, — ISBN (paperback) The Trilogy: originally published in by OUP with an introduction by H.J. Massingham, this edition has a new introduction by Richard Mabey.
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. Lark Rise to Candleford is a trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels by Flora Thompson ( – ) about the countryside of north-east Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, England, at the end of the 19th century. The stories were previously published separately as Lark Rise in , Over to Candleford in and Candleford Green in They were first published together in Lark Rise is the first book in a semi-autobiographical trilogy by Flora Thompson about her childhood in an English hamlet in the later s. She writes some forty years later, looking back on a quiet, pastoral life that was later marked by great changes.
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