TB
enjoyed a wide circle of friends both literary and non-literary. The former included Rose Macaulay
and Howard Spring
. She met her future collaborator Betty Askwith
(daughter of an old friend of her mother's)...
Literary responses
Flora Thompson
The Country Life reviewer wrote that the trilogy would take a permanent place in English letters for both its individual and social significance.
qtd. in
Lindsay, Gillian. Flora Thompson: The Story of the Lark Rise Writer. Hale, 1996.
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Historian Sir Arthur Bryant
put it on a level with Gaskell
Literary responses
Carola Oman
Historian Arthur Bryant
called a splendid achievement, and indispensable source for those interested in its subject.