But she read Freud
Alice Spawls: Flora Thompson, 19 February 2015
Dreams of the Good Life: The Life of Flora Thompson and the Creation of ‘Lark Rise to Candleford’
by Richard Mabey.
Allen Lane, 208 pp., £9.99, March 2015,978 0 14 104481 1 Show More
by Richard Mabey.
Allen Lane, 208 pp., £9.99, March 2015,
“... villagers called her a moll heron, ‘all legs and wings’. Later, having read Freud and Henry James, she hinted at a ‘restricted’ upbringing, but she found refuge in her surroundings as well as her books. Lark Rise has some excellent descriptions of the Oxfordshire countryside, interrupted from time to time by the voice of young ... ”