Flora (Jane) Thompson - Bibliography

Writer, born in Juniper Hill, Oxfordshire, SC England, UK. She 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), its three parts, Lark Rise, Over to Candleford, and Candleford Green having appeared separately. It is a major feat of observation and memory, depicting the erosion of rural society before modern industrialism.

Flora Jane Thompson (December 5, 1876 – May 21, 1947) was an English novelist and poet famous for her semi-autobiographical trilogy about the English countryside, Lark Rise to Candleford.

After winning an essay competition in 1911, she wrote extensively, publishing short stories and magazine and newspaper articles.

Her most famous works are the Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy, which she sent as essays to Oxford University Press in 1938 and were published soon after. She wrote a sequel Heatherley which was published posthumously.

Bibliography

Verse

Bog Myrtle and Peat 1921

Novels

Lark Rise 1939 Over to Candleford 1941 Candleford Green 1943 Lark Rise to Candleford 1945 (above three novels published as a trilogy) Still Glides the Stream 1948 (published posthumously) Heatherley (sequel to Lark Rise to Candleford written c.1944 - published posthumously first in A Country Calendar 1979 along with some Peverel Papers and some poems; then as single volume 1998) Gates of Eden (serialised in The Peverel Monthly edited by Flora in the late 1920s but never published as a separate volume)

Nature articles

The Peverel Papers 1986 (published posthumously)