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16 apr 2022 · Bates's Uncle Silas figure, and many of the lineaments of his character, were based on a real person named Joseph Betts, the husband of H. E. Bates's maternal grandmother's sister Mary Ann. Betts lived in a village in the Ouse Valley, was born in the early 1840s, and lived to the early 1930s. The figure he portrays is Rabelaisian and robust, a ...
My Uncle Silas: With Albert Finney, Sue Johnston, Joe Prospero, Julian Holloway. Five stories by H.E. Bates about a roguish English countryman.
My Uncle Silas (TV Series 2001–2003) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
10 set 2012 · Uncle Silas. Film; Advertising. Time Out says. It was a rum idea, hiring the author of all those trouser-dropping Whitehall farces to adapt Sheridan Le Fanu's 1864 gothic thriller.
Sun, Oct 28, 2001. The Wedding:- In the last years of Queen Victoria's reign, Ned, a middle-class schoolboy, whose parents are working abroad, spends his Summer holiday in the Bedfordshire countryside with his great-uncle Silas, who is sixty but very hearty and attractive to women still. He does odd jobs and poaches on the sly, to the horror of ...
My Uncle Silas. London: Jonathan Cape, 1939 (October 27). 192 pp. Drawings by Edward Ardizzone. In the preface (attached), Bates says that the character of Silas as well as a number of the stories are firmly based on real events in the life of Joseph Betts, "late husband of my maternal grandmother's sister Mary Ann." Betts is described at ...
