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Although best known for her evocative description of childhood times in north Oxfordshire during the 1880s and 90s, the author of "Lark Rise to Candleford" also lived in Hampshire for nearly thirty of her 70 years. She first arrived in the county in September 1898 to take up the position of sub office assistant to the postmaster of Grayshott for two and a half years, moved to Bournemouth (then in Hampshire) for some fifteen years where her first two children grew up, back to Liphook where her husband was appointed postmaster in August 1916, and finally left the county in the autumn of 1928 to follow, reluctantly, another career move of her husband's to Dartmouth. It was during her time in Hampshire that she matured, married and became a mother - also the time during which she began seriously to practice the craft of writing. While living in Liphook she had her first book published, a slim volume of poetry entitled "Bog Myrtle and Peat", and here also she started to write her regular "Peverel Papers" for the "Catholic Fireside" magazine. In the latter, we can see the style developing which was to make "Lark Rise" such a success towards the end of her life. Those of you familiar with Flora Thompson's work will recognise her habit of fictionalising the truth - when she wrote about the life of 'Laura' in "Lark Rise", it was of course about herself, Flora. She tells us of her family and the people around her, while changing their names and, to some extent, their history. This technique became an issue for Oxford University Press when they wished to take her work, since they did not normally publish works of fiction. But, recognising the merit of the book, they did accept it - and such was the demand from readers that they soon commissioned the sequels which became "Over to Candleford" and "Candleford Green". It is perhaps interesting to consider why Flora wove fact with fiction in the way she did. Sometimes it may have been to protect her own feelings, and sometimes to
