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Flora Thompson's Childhood Home

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Flora Thompson's Childhood Home

Flora Thompson's Childhood Home

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    Location: Cottisford, Cherwell, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom

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    1. Cottisford circular via Tusmore House

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    3. View of RAF Croughton loop from Evenley

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    February 28, 2023

    If you know the English novelist Flora Thompson, you may enjoy this stop at her childhood home.

      May 17, 2018

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



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      Bog Myrtle and Peat (1921)

      Novels

      Lark Rise (1939)

      Over to Candleford (1941)

      Candleford Green (1943)

      Lark Rise to Candleford (1945, the above three novels published as a trilogy)

      Still Glides the Stream (1948, published posthumously)

      Heatherley (1944, published posthumously first in A Country Calendar 1979 along with some Peverel Papers and some poems; then as a single volume in 1998)

      Gates of Eden (serialised in The Peverel Monthly edited by Thompson in the late 1920s but never published as a separate volume)

      Dashpers (unfinished, unpublished novel)

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Thompson

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