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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,
“... Mabey takes issue with the common characterisation of John as ‘oppressive and cruel’, blaming Margaret Lane’s biographical essay of 1957. Lane, who as well as being a novelist, biographer and countess was president of the Jane Austen Society (along with the Johnson Society, Brontë Society and Dickens Fellowship), claimed that Thompson, like Austen (and ... ”