![]() ![]() It tells the story of three closely related Oxfordshire communities - a hamlet, the nearby village and a small market town - is based on the authors experiences during childhood and youth. What suffered most visibly was the inborn aesthetic faculty, once a common possession of all countrymen. Lark Rise to Candleford (Paperback) Flora Thompson A portrayal of country life at the close of the 19th century. Yet the tradition of the old order was crumbling fast. ![]() She was the eldest of six children of the stonemason Albert and the nursemaid. She was born in Juniper Hill, a hamlet in north-east Oxfordshire. The songs came from their own lips, not out of a box.Ĭharity (in the old sense) survived, and what Laura's mother called the 'seemliness' of a too industrious life. Flora Jane Thompson ( 5 December 1876 ) was an English novelist and poet that was famous for her semi-autobiographical trilogy about the English countryside, Lark Rise to Candleford. ![]() The songs were travesties of the traditional ones, but their blurred echoes and the remnants of the old salty country speech had not yet died and left the fields to their modern silence. They still sang out-of-doors and kept May Day and Harvest Home. ![]() Because they were still an organic community, subsisting on the food, however scanty and monotonous, they raised themselves, they enjoyed good health and so, in spite of grinding poverty, no money to spend on amusements and hardly any for necessities, happiness. The last words are true of the hamlet of Lark Rise. Abundance of such foods, and even the poor enjoyed a rough plenty.' ![]()
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