| Admin History | Flora Thompson (1876-1947), writer, was born Flora Timms, the daughter of stonemason in Juniper Hill on the Oxfordshire/Northamptonshire border. She left school at fourteen to work in the village post office at Fringford. After marrying she and her husband ran the post office in Liphook, Hampshire, where she began to write in order to supplement the family income after she had three children. In 1921 she published her first volume of verse, 'Bog Myrtle and Peat'. The family moved to Devon in 1928. Her acclaimed autobiographical trilogy, 'Lark Rise' (1939), 'Over to Candleford' (1941), and 'Candleford Green' (1943) was reissued as 'Lark Rise to Candleford' in 1945.
There is little known of Mrs Tylor. The letters indicate that Mrs Tylor lived in Dartmouth, Devon, before moving to Crediton, Devon, in 1945, and that she may have been married to a doctor. Though each letter is formally addressed to 'Mrs Tylor', the two women appear to have been friends who met socially on several occasions, knew each other's spouses, and borrowed books from one another. |