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1. • • Flora Thompson (nee Timms) was the inspiration for Laura Timmins in the series Lark Rise to Candleford. Flora used her own life experiences as inspiration in writing the book Lark Rise to Candleford.
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   Did Flora Thompson give Lark Rise to Candleford a retrospective gloss?

   • And the notion that Flora Thompson (born in 1876) was giving the hamlet of her childhood a retrospective gloss doesn’t survive even a cursory reading of her trilogy, Lark Rise to Candleford, especially the first and best part, the description of the hamlet she called Lark Rise.

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   Who was Laura Timmins in Lark Rise to Candleford?

   • Flora Thompson (nee Timms) was the inspiration for Laura Timmins in the series Lark Rise to Candleford. Flora used her own life experiences as inspiration in writing the book Lark Rise to Candleford. She was born in 1876 in Juniper Hill near Brackley, and lived in The End House, the home of the Timms family in Juniper Hill.

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   When was Lark Rise to Candleford published?

   • In 1938 Thompson sent some essays on her country childhood to Oxford University Press. They were accepted and published in three separate volumes, Lark Rise (1939), Over to Candleford (1941), and Candleford Green (1943). In 1945 the books were republished as a trilogy under the title Lark Rise to Candleford.

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   Where was Lark Rise to Candleford set?

   • The next day the farmer’s wife explained that this was one of the sets for the BBC production of Lark Rise to Candleford — a long way from the Oxfordshire, where the book was set and where Flora Timms (as she then was) grew up, but ‘much closer to the rural dream’. Well, you can see where this is going as metaphor, can’t you?

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   Is Lark Rise a misrepresentation of Flora Thompson?

   • One version of Lark Rise was lavishly illustrated: a savage passage about the eviction of an old major was undermined on the opposite page by an idyllic cottage scene by Helen Allingham. It sums up the misrepresentation of Flora Thompson.

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   What did Richard Mabey find in Lark Rise to Candleford?

   • 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. Ambling around, he found something very curious … There were two rows of cottages facing each other, with a dusty track between them …There were clean curtains in the windows.

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3. www.bbc.co.uk › the-life-of-floraBBC One - Lark Rise to Candleford - The Life Of Flora

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   Flora's writing At first, John Thompson couldn't understand his wife's literary aspirations.

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4. www.spectator.co.uk › article › secrets-ofSecrets of Candleford: the real Flora Thompson - The Spectator

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   The trouble about Flora Thompson and Lark Rise, as Mabey suggests, is that she originally intended it as a novel but Oxford University Press, her publishers, didn’t then do fiction so it...

5. www.literaryladiesguide.com › author-biographyFlora Thompson, Author of Lark Rise to Candleford

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   Sep 7, 2024 · Flora Thompson (December 5, 1876 – May 21, 1947), was an English novelist and poet, best known for her semi-autobiographical trilogy Lark Rise to Candleford. The commercial and critical success of the books — Lark Rise, Over to Candleford, and Candleford Green — is such that they have never been out of print, and were adapted by the BBC ...

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   Flora Jane Thompson (née Timms; 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.

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   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.

9. www.bbc.co.uk › floras-typewriterBBC One - Lark Rise to Candleford - Flora's Typewriter

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   Flora was unable to actively campaign with them as she was kept busy with her family. However, John did come to support Flora, and by the time Lark Rise was published, was encouraging her writing.

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    Flora Thompson (nee Timms) was the inspiration for Laura Timmins in the series Lark Rise to Candleford. Flora used her own life experiences as inspiration in writing the book Lark...