Resources
Related Categories
|
Also Recommended
|
|
|
Charlotte Brontë, Margaret Smith...
£6.99
|
|
|
|
|
Jane Austen, Jane Stabler...
£6.99
|
|
|
|
|
Lark Rise to Candleford
Flora Thompson and Phillip Mallett
592 pages
|
30 wood-engravings
|
216x138mm
978-0-19-960160-8
|
Hardback
|
06 January 2011
|
|
|
|
|
- The only hardback edition of Flora Thompson's classic evocation of rural life in the 1880s, in an attractive format including ribbon marker.
- Features the original wood-engravings by Julie Neild.
- Includes a new introduction by Angelique Richardson that considers the changing social backdrop to the trilogy, Flora Thompson's artistry, and the popular afterlife of the book on stage and television.
- Includes a useful Select Bibliography, and a Chronology of Flora Thompson's life and publications.
Lark Rise to Candleford is Flora Thompson's classic evocation of a vanished world of agricultural customs and rural culture. The trilogy of Lark Rise, Over to Candleford, and Candleford Green tells the story of Flora's childhood and youth during the 1880s in Lark Rise, in reality Juniper Hill, the hamlet in Oxfordshire where she was born. Through the eyes of Laura, the author's fictional counterpart, Flora describes the cottages, characters, and way of life of the agricultural labourers and their families with whom she grew up; seasonal celebrations, schooling, church-going, entertainment and story-telling are
described in fond and documentary detail. Later, when Laura leaves school and becomes assistant to the village postmistress, the same loving detail brings vividly to life the rural post office and its staff.
This new edition of the trilogy reproduces the original wood-engravings by Julie Neild and includes a new introduction by Phillip Mallett which looks at the background to the books and their enduring popularity.Readership: Readers of memoirs, rural literature, Victorian literature, historical fiction, Flora Thompson.
|
|
|
Flora Thompson and Phillip Mallett, Lecturer in English, University of St Andrews Flora Thompson was born in 1876 at Juniper Hill, a hamlet on the Oxfordshire-Northamptonshire border described in Lark Rise. After leaving school at the age of fourteen, she was sent to assist the village postmistress, who also kept the smithy, and appears prominently in Candleford Green. After her marriage she moved to Bournemouth, and it was there that she started to write. The trilogy of Lark Rise (1939), Over to Candleford (1941), and Candleford Green (1943) was followed by a fourth autobiographical volume, Still Glides the Stream (1948), published the after Flora Thompson's death in Devon in May
1947.
|
|
|
"This gorgeous gift edition of the classic...will be treasured by a new generation of readers." - Family History Monthly
|
|
|
|
The specification in this catalogue, including without limitation price, format, extent, number of illustrations, and month of publication, was as accurate as possible at the time the catalogue was compiled. Occasionally, due to the nature of some contractual restrictions, we are unable to ship a specific product to a particular territory. Jacket images are provisional and liable to change before publication.
|
|
