Lark Rise

by Flora Thompson

Overview

Flora Thompson's semi-autobiographical Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy is known and loved the world over for its gentle depiction of rural life in Oxfordshire in the late 19th century, a way of life that was soon to vanish forever as mechanisation took over farming, and many of the villagers moved town-wards in such of a more prosperous future. The first volume describes Laura's childhood in Lark Rise, a small agricultural hamlet. It lovingly recalls the details of Flora's small world, its ritua

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789431742
Publisher:	Oxford City Press
Publication date:	06/28/2012
Pages:	332
Sales rank:	944,689
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.74(d)

About the Author

Born in Juniper Hill, Oxfordshire, Flora Thompson left school at 14 to work in the local post office. She married young, and wrote mass-market fiction to help support her increasing family. In her 60s she published the semi-autobiographical trilogy combined as Lark Rise to Candleford (1945).