Conhecimento Comum

Nome canónico: Thompson, Flora
Nome legal: Thompson, Flora Jane
Outros nomes: Timms, Flora (birth)
Data de nascimento: 1876-12-05
Data de falecimento: 1947-05-21
Localização do túmulo: Longcross Cemetery, Dartmouth, Devon, England
Sexo: female
Nacionalidade: UK
Local de nascimento: Juniper Hill, Oxfordshire, England
Local de falecimento: Brixham, Devon, England
Locais de residência: Oxfordshire, England, UK
Devon, England, UK
Juniper Hill, Oxfordshire, UK
Educação: Cottisford parish school
Ocupações: novelist
poet
short-story writer
postal worker
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425: Flora Thompson, née Timms, was the eldest of six children of a stonemason and a nursemaid. She was educated at the parish school in Cottisford and left school at age 14 to work in various post offices across southern England. In 1903, she married John William Thompson, a post office clerk and telegraphist who had served in the Royal Navy, and the couple had a daughter and two sons. Flora Thompson won an essay competition in The Ladies Companion in 1911 for an essay about Jane Austen. She later began publishing extensively, writing short stories, magazine and newspaper articles. She was a dedicated self-taught naturalist and many of her nature articles were published in anthologies. Flora Thompson is best known for her semi-autobiographical trilogy of books about the rural English countryside, Lark Rise to Candleford.

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Lark Rise to Candleford por Flora Thompson

What an absolutely charming read. It's not a memoir and not a novel but a series of recollections and stories of both the hamlet of Lark Rise and the small towns of Candleford and Candleford Green with some small through lines of the life of Laura Timmins but that doesn't really do it justice. It's about a time and place that was already changing rapidly and was completely gone by the time Thompson wrote her stories but she creates it so vividly. I read it after a re-watch of the TV series and it was fun to see the sentences or phrases that were teased into narratives but it is probably best to think of them as completely different things. I dipped into this over a few months and I always enjoyed it.… (mais)

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amyem58 | 28 outras críticas | May 2, 2022 |

Lark Rise por Flora Thompson

Flora Thompson is best remembered for three (or four) memoirs she wrote, Lark Rise (1939), Over to Candleford (1941), Candleford Green (1943) and pothumously published Still glides the stream (1948. The first three volumes were also printed in one volume entitled Lark rise to Candleford.

I thought this was a novel, but it turned out to be more like a work of social history of late-Victorian village life. Clearly, Flora Thompson doesn't have the skill of her contemporaries Thomas Hardy or Hugh Walpole. Lark Rise is well-written but rather boring.There isn't such an awful lot to write about village life, so at 247 pages the book seems a bit too long, with some information repeated. After about 150 pages it became a bit of a drag.… (mais)

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edwinbcn | 7 outras críticas | Dec 4, 2021 |

Lark Rise to Candleford: A Trilogy por Flora Thompson

3.5. Leisurely jaunt through the past. I wasn't really expecting the show so I wasn't disappointed.

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OutOfTheBestBooks | 28 outras críticas | Sep 24, 2021 |

Lark Rise por Flora Thompson

It was well-written, but not interesting enough to me to read all of the trilogy (only finished part 1).
However, for people interested in the time and place, it would be a good read.

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librisissimo | 7 outras críticas | May 7, 2021 |

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