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She was born in Juniper Hill in north-east Oxfordshire , the eldest of six children of Albert and Emma Timms, a stonemason and nursemaid respectively. Her favourite brother, Edwin, was killed at the Battle Of The Somme in 1916 . Flora was educated at Cottisford and worked in Post Offices in south-east England until marrying John William Thompson in 1903 , with whom she had two sons (the younger, Peter, later lost at sea in 1941 ) and a daughter. After winning an essay competition in 1911 , she wrote extensively, publishing Short Stories and magazine and newspaper articles. She was a keen self-taught Naturalist and many of her nature articles were anthologised in 1986 . Her most famous works are the Lark Rise To Candleford trilogy, which she sent as essays to Oxford University Press in 1938 and were published soon after. The books are a fictionalised, if autobiographical, Social History of rural English life in the late 19th and early 20th Century and are now considered minor classics. Flora Thompson died in 1947 in Brixham , Devon . BIBLIOGRAPHY Verse
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