Flora Thompson
Flora Jane Thompson (born December 5, 1876 in Juniper Hill, Oxfordshire , Great Britain ; † May 21, 1947 in Brixham , Devon , Great Britain) was an English poet, who mainly by her autobiographical description of the social history of the rural population in her trilogy Lark Rise to Candleford became known.
She grew up in Juniper Hill in northeast Oxfordshire as the eldest of six children of the stonemason Albert Timms and his wife Emma Timms. She went to school in Cottisford 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
Poems
- 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 an equally autobiographical sequel to Lark Rise to Candleford , written 1944, published posthumously in A Country Calendar 1979)
- Gates of Eden (a sequel to The Peverel Monthly that never appeared as a book)
Nature observation
- The Peverel Papers (1986)
literature
- Ruth Collette Hoffman: Without education or encouragement: the literary legacy of Flora Thompson , Madison, NJ [et al. a.]: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8386-4206-1
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| SURNAME | Thompson, Flora |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Thompson, Flora Jane (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 5, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Juniper Hill, Oxfordshire , UK |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 21, 1947 |
| Place of death | Brixham , Devon , UK |