Lark Rise to Candleford

by Flora Thompson

Overview

A gypsy woman once told Flora Thompson her fortune: "You are going to be loved by people you've never seen and never will see."

The prophecy came true when she published her endearing and precise record of country life at the end of the last century. She recorded an England stepping out of its disappearing past, a past of landed gentry, yeoman and retainer. In this picture she saw a courage and fulfillment that marked that world of diligent labor and self- effacement.

LARK RISE TO CANDLEFORD combines Thompson's three autobiographical memoirs: LARK RISE, OVER TO CANDLEFORD and CANDLEFORD GREEN. Another powerful book of recollection on the same topic is LOST COUNTRY LIFE by Dorothy Hartley, also recorded by B-O-T.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781773233635
Publisher:	Reading Essentials
Publication date:	12/04/2018
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	564,915
File size:	601 KB

About the Author

Flora Thompson

Phillip Mallett is a Lecturer in English at the University of St Andrews. Phillip Mallett's primary research interests are in the field of Victorian studies: in particular, in the work of Thomas Hardy; the idea of the city; gender, sexuality and the social role of women in the period 1870-1930; and in British responses to India from the 1830s till Independence.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

Note on the Text xxiv

Further Reading xxv

A Chronology of Flora Thompson xxvii

Lark Rise

I Poor People's Houses 3

II A Hamlet Childhood 20

III Men Afield 35

IV At the 'Wagon and Horses' 53

V Survivals 65

VI The Besieged Generation 87

VII Callers 109

VIII 'The Box' 124

IX Country Playtime 134

X Daughters of the Hamlet 148

XI School 167

XII Her Majesty's Inspector 183

XIII May Day 196

XIV To Church on Sunday 205

XV Harvest Home 226

Over To Candleford

XVI As They Were 247

XVII Hamlet Home 259

XVIII 'Once Upon a Time' 272

XIX 'A Bit of a Tell' 280

XX Mrs. Herring 294

XXI Over to Candleford 302

XXII Kind Friends and Relations 315

XXIII Sink or Swim 323

XXIV Laura Looks On 333

XXV Summer Holiday 342

XXVI Uncle Tom's Queer Fish 361

XXVII Gandleford Green 370

XXVIII Growing Pains 382

XXIX Exit Laura 395

Candleford Green

XXX From One Small World to Another 401

XXXI On Her Majesty's Service 415

XXXII The Green 429

XXXIII Penny Reading 447

XXXIV Neighbours 462

XXXV At the Post Office 480

XXXVI 'Such is Life!' 495

XXXVII 'Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay!' 509

XXXVIII Letter-Carrier 522

XXXIX Change in the Village 542

Editorial Reviews

Our literature has no finer remembrancer . . . no observer so genuinely endearing.
—John Fowles

New Statesman

Flora Thompson's great memoir of her Oxfordshire girlhood [is] a model of the form. The richness of the language, the lingering over detail and incident creates a haunting classic.

The New York Times