Flora Thompson

Flora Jane Thompson ( born December 5, 1876 in Juniper Hill, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, † May 21 1947 in Brixham, Devon, United Kingdom) was an English poet who primarily by their autobiographical account of the social history of the rural population in their trilogy Lark Rise to Candleford has become known.

She grew up in Juniper Hill in the north- east Oxfordshire to the eldest of six children of Albert Timms stonemason and his wife Emma Timms. She went into Cottisford to school and worked in various post offices in Oxfordshire and Hampshire and then moved to Bournemouth. In 1903 she married John William Thompson and had two sons and a daughter.

Works

Poetry

  • Bog Myrtle and Peat ( 1921)

Novels

  • Lark Rise (1939 )
  • Over to Candleford (1941 )
  • Candleford Green ( 1943)
  • Lark Rise to Candleford (1945 )
  • Still Glides the Stream (1948 )
  • Heatherley (This is also an autobiographical oriented sequel to Lark Rise to Candleford, written in 1944, published posthumously in A Country Calendar 1979)
  • Gates of Eden ( a sequel series in The Peverel Monthly, who never appeared in book form )

Nature observations

  • The Peverel Papers (1986 )
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