Flora Thompson

Containing Lark Rise, Over to Candleford and Candleford Green, this is the story of the relationships between a hamlet, a village and a small market town. The book is based on the author's own experiences and chronicles May Day celebrations and the daily lives of craftsmen.

A Trilogy

Lark Rise to Candleford

An autobiography of Laura - as the author calls herself - which describes in detail her life in a country village. Her self-sufficient world of farm labourers and craftsmen working to the rhythms of the seasons and enjoying their traditional festivities is preserved for readers.

Lark Rise to Candelford

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Heatherley

In the little hamlet of Lark Rise times are changing and Laura is growing up. Although she must attend the nearby village school, she would far rather read and make up stories in her head. Real-life excitement comes, however, when she and her beloved younger brother Edmund are allowed to walk on their own to the grand market town of Candleford to stay with their relatives one summer. There, Laura discovers the joys of the shops, the ways of boy-talk with her cousins and the secret world of 'Bookworms Ltd' with her Uncle Tom, before an offer arrives that will determine her future. A story of friendships, rivalries and a young girl finding her place in the world, this is the second part of Flora Thompson's endearing Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy on country life, which evokes the passage from childhood to adolescence and a society on the cusp of transformation.

Over to Candleford

Candleford Green

A Country Calendar, and Other Writings

Still Glides the Stream

A Yearbook of the Countryside

The Peverel Papers

Phillip Mallett

Julian Shuckburgh

The Illustrated Lark Rise to Candleford

Illustrated Lark Rise to Candleford

Lark RiseFlora ThompsonFlora Thompson (5 December 1876 - 21 May 1947) was an English novelist and poet best known for her semi-autobiographical trilogy about the English countryside, Lark Rise to Candleford.

Lark Rise

Flora Thompson was an English novelist and poet best known for her semi-autobiographical trilogy about the English countryside, Lark Rise to Candleford.

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Trilogía de Candleford

Laura Timms spends her childhood in a country hamlet called Lark Rise. An intelligent and enquiring child, she is always attentive to the way of life around her – the lives of a farming community and nature as it transforms through the seasons, their working lives together and their celebrations.

Although extracts from The Peverel Papers have been published previously, this is the first time they have been published in their entirety, in chronological sequence and in a single edition. It is a project which Flora herself wished to pursue just before her death, but never did so. Now, with the blessing of her granddaughter, we are pleased to bring that wish to fruition. They have been transcribed from the original Catholic Fireside magazines in which they were first published over the period 1921-27.

Nature Notes Written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927

Keith Dewhurst

A literary sampler of English village life in late Victorian Oxfordshire, Lark Rise re-enacts the first day of harvest. The play is written to be performed as a promenade production with no distinction between stage and auditorium. The interest lies in the lively picture of typical country life of the period, with music and songs, with a brief flash forward to the 1914-18 war. Music is available separately on hire. Contained in a volume with Candleford.7 women, 12 men

Flora Thompson

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