Lindsay, Gillian. Flora Thompson: The Story of the Lark Rise Writer. Hale, 1996.
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Dedications | Flora Thompson | Flora Thompson
published her first book, a poetry volume entitled Bog Myrtle and Peat, dedicated to Dr Ronald Campbell MacFie
. Lindsay, Gillian. Flora Thompson: The Story of the Lark Rise Writer. Hale, 1996. 101 and n13 |
Friends, Associates | Flora Thompson | FT
met Dr Ronald Campbell MacFie
, as a consequence of her criticism of his ode on the sinking of the Titanic. Lindsay, Gillian. Flora Thompson: The Story of the Lark Rise Writer. Hale, 1996. 86-8 |
Friends, Associates | Lady Margaret Sackville | Her other literary mentor figure, Ronald Campbell MacFie
, a doctor and medical researcher as well as a writer, collaborated with her on several publications (all of which deal with fairies). Around the time of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Flora Thompson | FT
had grown up reading poetry and wishing to be a poet. For years this was the direction of her deepest literary aspirations, in which Ronald Campbell MacFie
helped and encouraged her. Stressful periods in... |
Literary responses | Lady Margaret Sackville | The available sources represent Ronald Campbell MacFie
(a fairly successful poet who in 1909 began collaborating with LMS
on books about fairies) as a benign influence on her work. But among his own poems is... |
Occupation | Flora Thompson | Through her supporter Ronald Campbell MacFie
she secured the patronage of Lady Margaret Sackville
, whose name appeared on the society's letterhead. FT
wrote detailed criticisms on every submission, and also circulated each member's work... |
Reception | Flora Thompson | FT
won a more prestigious competition, run by The Literary Monthly, for the best critique of an ode they had printed, written by Ronald Campbell MacFie
, on the sinking of the Titanic. Lindsay, Gillian. Flora Thompson: The Story of the Lark Rise Writer. Hale, 1996. 86-8 |
Textual Production | Lady Margaret Sackville | During her early years as a publishing poet, LMS
also wrote fiction for children in verse and in prose. In 1909 she began writing fairy-tales in collaboration with Scottish poet Ronald Campbell MacFie
. They... |
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