During the 1930s and 40s FT
worked at several unpublished novels. She never submitted any to a publisher, but she struggled with Gates of Eden, as well as doing her work for the Peverel Society
Occupation
Flora Thompson
After FT
brought the Fireside Reading Circle to an end, she founded instead, with Mildred Humble-Smith
(who possessed a university degree), a non-magazine writers' group called the Peverel Society
.
Lindsay, Gillian. Flora Thompson: The Story of the Lark Rise Writer. Hale, 1996.
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Textual Production
Flora Thompson
After the Fireside Reading Circle was succeeded by the non-magazine writing circle called the Peverel Society
, FT
designed and wrote for it a course on general culture as well as others on various aspects...