Thompson, Flora

Flora Thompson was born in 1876 at Juniper Hill on the Oxfordshire/Northamptonshire border. She is best known as the author of 'Lark Rise to Candleford', that classic and evocative observation of her rural childhood which has been a best-seller since its publication in 1945. That story ends with ...

The Oxfordshire hamlet of Lark Rise bustles with activity. The tightly-knit farming community includes the gossip, the midwife, the pedlars, the borrowers and the gypsies, as well as the clerics and the old folks who hate to see the traditions fade.