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Flora Thompson

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born

December 05, 1876 in Juniper Hill, The United Kingdom

died

May 21, 1947

gender

female

genre

Literature & Fiction

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Flora Jane Thompson (5 December 1876 – 21 May 1947) was an English novelist and poet famous for her semi-autobiographical trilogy about the English countryside, Lark Rise to Candleford.

Flora benefited from good access to books when the public library opened in Winton, in 1907. Not long after, in 1911, she won an essay competition in The Ladies Companion for a 300-word essay about Jane Austen.[6] She later wrote extensively, publishing short stories and magazine and newspaper articles. She was a keen self-taught naturalist and many of her nature articles were anthologised in 1986.

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...more

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Books by Flora Thompson

Average rating: 3.81 · 618 ratings · 156 reviews · 9 distinct works

	Lark Rise to Candleford 3.79 avg rating — 528 ratings — published 1945 — 24 editions	My rating:
	Lark Rise 3.76 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2001 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Over To Candleford 4.19 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1978 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Heatherley: The Lost Sequel To " Lark Rise To Candleford " 3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Still Glides The Stream 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1948 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Candleford Green 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1998 — 5 editions	My rating:
	A Country Calendar, And Other Writings 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1980 — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Country Calender 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Peverel Papers: A Yearbook Of The Countryside 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:

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Series by Flora Thompson

Lark Rise to Candleford (3 books)
by Flora Thompson

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Quotes by Flora Thompson

“Afterwards, they always had tea in the kitchen, much the nicest room in the house.”
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“Twas a still, calm night and the moon's pale light
Shone over hill and dale
When friends mute with grief stood around the deathbed
Of their loved, lost Lily Lyle.
Heart as pure as forest lily
Never knowing guile,
Had its home within the bosom
Of sweet Lily Lyle.”
― Flora Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford

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“Candleford Green was but a small village and there were fields and meadows and woods all around it. As soon as Laura crossed the doorstep, she could see some of these. But mere seeing from a distance did not satisfy her; she longed to go alone far into the fields and hear the birds singing, the brooks tinkling, and the wind rustling through the corn, as she had when a child. To smell things and touch things, warm earth and flowers and grasses, and to stand and gaze where no one could see her, drinking it all in.”
― Flora Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford

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