Death
The death of her son during the Second World War affected her deeply and overshadowed the final years of her life. Flora Thompson died in 1947 of a heart attack in Brixham, Devon and is buried at Longcross Cemetery, Dartmouth, Devon. In 1948, her final work, Still Glides the Stream, was published posthumously.
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