Flora Thompson

...Revisited. They were then paired, incongruously, as a result of the potato famine of the 1840s with a large immigrant wave of what Flora Thompson, in Lark Rise to Candleford, labelled "old Irishers", working-class labourers and their...

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...to the west, is an area of heathland and woodland and part of the East Hampshire Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. From 1898 to 1901 Flora Thompson, author of Lark Rise to Candleford, was assistant postmistress in Grayshott. Among her...

In this article: Grayshott, Haslemere, Alfred Tennyson, Lark Rise to Candleford, George Bernard Shaw, and Arthur Conan Doyle

...was a highwayman who used the Reading Road as his main stamping ground. Darby Green where he was hanged is named after him. Flora Thompson, author of the recently televised period drama 'Lark Rise to Candleford' is recorded in the 1901...

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...the countryside of north-east Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, England, at the end of the 19th century. They were written by Flora Thompson and first published together in 1945. The stories were previously published separately as Lark Rise...

In this article: Lark Rise to Candleford, Buckingham, London, and Oxfordshire

...social history of rural English life in the late 19th and early 20th century and are now considered minor classics. Flora Thompson died in 1947 in Brixham, Devon and is buried at Longcross Cemetery, Dartmouth, Devon. Lark Rise to...

In this article: Flora Jane Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford, Oxford University Press, Jane Austen, Oxfordshire, and Grayshott

Filming on the new series is due to get under way in the summer. The series, adapted by Bill Gallagher, is based on author Flora Thompson's childhood memoirs of growing up in 19th century Oxfordshire. Thompson's semi-autobiographical...

In this article: Lark Rise, Julia Sawalha, BBC One, Lark Rise to Candleford, Oxfordshire, London, and BBC

...02 Jan 2009 Lark Rise to Candleford: Julia Sawalha (centre) with co-stars Claudie Blakley and Linda Bassett Photo: BBC Author Flora Thompson's memoirs about life in an Oxfordshire village at the end of the 19th century carry a timely...

In this article: Recession, Lark Rise to Candleford, Lark Rise, BBC One, Little Dorrit, and Julia Sawalha

...placidity, which attracted an impressive average viewing figure of 6.7 million people. On Sunday, the drama - inspired by Flora Thompson's trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels - returns for a second series. "It's gentle, and there's...

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...that whatshername from Ab Fab, I always thought she was odd..."' The series Lark Rise To Candleford was based on an adaptation of Flora Thompson's memoir of her childhood in Oxfordshire. Born in 1876, Flora lived in a small hamlet until...

In this article: Julia Sawalha, Lark Rise, Dawn French, Chocolate Orange, Caroline, EastEnders, and Ab Fab

Diary of a country woman She was a labourer's daughter who left school at 13 to work in a post office. Flora Thompson's recollections of growing up in an Oxfordshire village capture a vanishing world and create an authentic picture of...

In this article: Lark Rise to Candleford, Lark Rise to Candleford, Grayshott, and Gilbert White