Other days, other ways! For myself I would desire a combina… - Flora Thompson

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Other days, other ways! For myself I would desire a combination of old romance and modern machinery. No housewife would wish to the return to the era when everything, had to be made at home by candlelight and which lost to us who knows how many women poets and painters!

Flora Thompson

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Flora Jane Thompson (December 5 1876 – May 21 1947) was an English author and poet, most well-known for her semi-autobiographical trilogy, Lark Rise to Candleford and her posthumously published novel Still Glides the Stream.

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Alternative Names: Flora Jane Timms • Flora Jane Thompson • Flora (June) Thompson

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