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When Richard Mabey was researching this biography of Flora Thompson, author of Lark Rise to Candleford, he happened to stay at a farmhouse B&B near Bath.
Mar 20, 2014 · Through the persona of the young Laura, Thompson looks back on her Victorian childhood in Lark Rise, an impoverished rural hamlet in Oxfordshire, and to her first job at the post office in the neighbouring Candleford.
Lark Rise to Candleford is a British television costume drama series, adapted by the BBC from Flora Thompson 's trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels about the English countryside, published between 1939 and 1943. The first episode aired on 13 January 2008 on BBC One and BBC HD in the UK.
But Richard Harrington managed to breathe sufficient life into the role to make it work, and the parallels between Gabriel and Dorcas were apparent without being spelt out for us.
He became a full-time writer in 1974. He spent most of his life among the beechwoods of the Chilterns. He now lives in the Waveney Valley in Norfolk, with his partner Polly Lavender, [2][3] and retreats to a boat on the Norfolk Broads. He appeared in a 1975 episode of the BBC Television series The World About Us, "In Deepest Britain", with John ...
According to Richard Mabey in his 2014 book Dreams of the Good Life, Thompson "was a sophisticated and imaginative writer, involved in a more complicated business than straightforward autobiography". The stories are told in the third person by 'Laura' (a version of the author's childhood self) who observes events directly, while the adult ...
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Mar 6, 2014 · Richard Mabey talks about his new book on Lark Rise to Candleford author Flora Thompson. Duration: 15:56
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