Still Glides the Stream

In this episode, Caroline Rance and I discuss this book - Still Glides the Stream by Flora Thompson - that both of us could barely believe that we had never read nor heard of before we stumbled across it in a second hand book stall. It really is a special piece of writing, a hybrid of fiction, memoir and ethnography documenting the tales of women and their role in the countryside community in the late Victorian Era until the post-war era with humanity, pragmatism and humour.
We both strongly recommend this book and hope you enjoy our discussion of it. For me, this is a record of why women’s…