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  • Lark Rise to Candleford is a trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels by Flora Thompson about the countryside of north-east Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire...
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  • Lark Rise is a 1939 semi-autobiographical novel by the English author Flora Thompson. It was illustrated by Lynton Lamb. In 1945, the book was republished...
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  • Lark Rise to Candleford is a British television costume drama series, adapted by the BBC from Flora Thompson's trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels...
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    Larks are passerine birds of the family Alaudidae. Larks have a cosmopolitan distribution with the largest number of species occurring in Africa. Only...
    29 KB (2,240 words) - 01:08, 24 March 2024
  • You must Love Me, and Love my Dog That We should Rise with the Lark That We should Lie Down with the Lamb That a Sulky Temper is a Misfortune Lamb's popular...
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    Juniper Hill (category Articles with short description)
    Thompson was born in Juniper Hill in 1876. She fictionalised the hamlet as Lark Rise in her Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy. Juniper Hill House Mary D. Lobel...
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    Ruby Bentall (category Actors from the London Borough of Camden)
    actress, known for playing Minnie in Lark Rise to Candleford, Mary Bennet in Lost in Austen, Verity Poldark in the 2015 BBC adaptation of Winston Graham's...
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    A lark, early bird, morning person, or (in Scandinavian countries) an A-person, is a person who usually gets up early in the morning and goes to bed early...
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  • Flora Thompson (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    trilogy about the English countryside, Lark Rise to Candleford. Thompson was born Flora Jane Timms in Juniper Hill in northeast Oxfordshire, the eldest child...
    11 KB (1,140 words) - 06:22, 16 April 2024
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    The ashy-crowned sparrow-lark (Eremopterix griseus) is a small sparrow-sized member of the lark family, belonging to the genus of sparrow larks. It is...
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  • Matilda Ziegler (category All articles with dead external links)
    and Pearl Pratt in Lark Rise to Candleford. Ziegler's first screen role was in her early twenties, during 1987–89; she appeared in the BBC One soap opera...
    11 KB (685 words) - 10:53, 23 March 2024
  • Claudie Blakley (category Alumni of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama)
    in Leeds. She is best known for her role as Emma Timmins in the BBC drama series Lark Rise to Candleford. Other notable roles include Mabel Nesbitt in...
    10 KB (235 words) - 18:02, 1 October 2023
  • Linda Bassett (category Articles with short description)
    dinnerladies (1999), Lark Rise to Candleford (2008–11), Grandma's House (2010–12) and Call the Midwife (2015–present). She was nominated for the BAFTA Award for...
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  • Over to Candleford (category Articles with short description)
    the English author Flora Thompson. In 1945 the book was republished as part of the trilogy Lark Rise to Candleford, comprising the novels Lark Rise (1939)...
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    Brendan Coyle (category Alumni of the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts)
    North & South, Robert Timmins in the first three series of Lark Rise to Candleford, and more recently Mr Bates, the valet, in Downton Abbey, which earned...
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    "The Lark Ascending" is a poem of 122 lines by the English poet George Meredith about the song of the skylark. Siegfried Sassoon called it matchless of...
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    Julia Sawalha (category Actors from the London Borough of Wandsworth)
    Dorcas Lane in the BBC's costume drama Lark Rise to Candleford (2008–2011). Her film credits include Buddy's Song (1991), The Wind in the Willows (1996)...
    21 KB (1,273 words) - 12:02, 4 June 2024
  • Frank Thornton (category Actors from the London Borough of Southwark)
    in the BBC radio comedy The Embassy Lark, a spin-off of The Navy Lark. He appeared in at least one episode of The Navy Lark as CPO Nathanial Pertwee...
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  • Karl Johnson (actor) (category Articles with short description)
    series Rome and of Twister Turrill in the BBC costume drama Lark Rise to Candleford. Jubilee (1978) - Sphinx The Tempest (1979) - Ariel, an airy spirit...
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  • Olivia Hallinan (category Actors from the London Borough of Hounslow)
    best known for her role as Laura Timmins in the BBC TV series Lark Rise to Candleford and also as Kim in the Channel 4 drama Sugar Rush. She also starred...
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