Nor will these lovers be deceived by the limitations of her range, her personal simplicity and humility of spirit and the excellent lowness of her voice as the narrator of these quiet annals, into withholding from her the full measure of what is her due. This wholeness, they will say, is a triune achievement: a triumph of evocation in the resurrecting of an age that, being transitional, was the most difficult to catch as it flew another in diversity of rural portraiture engagingly blended with autobiography and the last in the overtones and implications of a set of values which is the author's 'message'. Her lovers guessed it when her three memorial volumes, Lark Rise, Over to Candleford, and Candleford Green, were published separately now that they form a trilogy, each part illuminating and reflecting the others in a delicate interplay, the time of speculation is over. Flora Thompson possesses the attributes both of sympathetic presentation and literary power to such a degree of quality and beauty that her claims upon posterity can hardly be questioned. This is something very different from what is called 'appealing to the popular imagination'. If it does so appear, it is not merely good luck, because the truth should also possess a super-sensitive probe (like the woodcock's bill) for testing the subsoil of what it works on. But in our imperfect world his living light will only shine among men if it appears at precisely the right time. Part One of the trilogy Lark Rise to Candlefordīy absolute values, a true writer can never be other than what he is. "Lark Rise" is the first novel in the trilogy.] Was first published as a single volume in 1945:
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