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Flora Thompson
Flora Jane Thompson (5 December 1876 – 21 May 1947) was an English novelist and poet famous for her semi-autobiographical trilogy about the English countryside, ''Lark Rise to Candleford''.
==Early life and family==
She was born in Juniper Hill in northeast Oxfordshire, the eldest child of Albert Timms and Emma Dipper, a stonemason and nursemaid respectively. Albert and Emma had twelve children, but only six survived childhood.〔Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK, Class: RG14; Piece: 8177; Schedule Number: 134.〕 Her favourite brother, Edwin, was killed near Ypres in 1916.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Casualty Details )〕 Flora was educated at the parish school in Cottisford and was described as 'altogether her father's child'.〔Timms, Betty, ''More Tales from Lark Rise'', The Wychwood Press, Charlbury 2012, ISBN 9781902279459.〕
Flora worked in various post offices in southern England. The first of these was Fringford, a village about northeast of Bicester. Flora started work here in 1891, as assistant to the postmistress, Mrs. Kezia Whitton.〔Lindsay, 2007, page not cited〕〔United Kingdom Census 1881, parish of Fringford〕 Among other post offices where Flora worked was that at Grayshott in Hampshire and Yateley in Hampshire, and she later moved to Bournemouth. In 1903 she married John William Thompson at Twickenham Parish Church, with whom she had a daughter, Winifred Grace (1903) and two sons, Henry Basil (1909) and Peter Redmond (1918)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=
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