"Give Them Their Life, The Poetry of H.E. Bates, Evensford Productions Ltd, Eads, Peter, 1995, The Life and Times of H.E.Bates, Northamptonshire County Council Libraries and Information Service, H. E. Bates Herbert Ernest Bates, CBE (16 May 1905 – 29 January 1974), better known as H.E. Bates, was an English writer and author. His best-known works include ""Love for Lydia"", ""The Darling Buds of May"", and ""My Uncle Silas"". H.E. Bates was born on 16 May 1905 in Rushden, Northamptonshire, and educated at Kettering Grammar School. After leaving school, he worked as a reporter and a warehouse clerk. Many of"
"Harriet Bates Harriet Bates (pen name, Eleanor Putnam; July 30, 1856 – March 1886) was a 19th-century American author of poetry and novels. Harriet Leonora Vose was born at Quincy, Illinois, July 30, 1856. She was the eldest daughter of Prof. George L. Vose, author of a number of works on civil and railroad engineering. She went to live in Salem, Massachusetts in 1865, remaining for six years. The family then moved temporarily to the West, in search of health for the mother. In that time, she attended a dame school. Her literary pseudonym, ""Eleanor Putnam,"" had been the maiden"
"Josephine White Bates Josephine White Bates (8 July 1862 – 1934) was a Canadian-born American author who preferred to use her married name Mrs. E. Lindon Bates. She was the author of ""A. Blind Lead"", 1886; ""Bunch-Grass Stories"", 1892; and ""Mercury Poisoning in the Industries of New York City and Vicinity"", 1912. Josephine White was born 8 July 1862 at Portage du Faur, near Ottawa, Canada, the daughter of George E. and Mary White. She was a student in Lake Forest, Illinois, and at the Lake Forest College, 1876-80. She married Lindon Wallace Bates (born 1858), a hydraulic engineer, of"
"Charlotte Fiske Bates Charlotte Fiske Bates (Mme. Rogé) (November 30, 1838 – September 1, 1916) was an American writer. Charlotte Bates was born in New York City as the youngest of six children. Her father, Hervey Bates, died when she was an infant, causing her mother, Eliza Endicott Bates, to relocate the family to Cambridge, Massachusetts. After public education and private tutoring, Bates accepted a position at the Salisbury School for Young Ladies as an instructor of English in September 1888. In 1879 she published ""Risks and Other Poems"", which contained about 120 poems, including ten sonnets, ten French translations"
"A. Bates Auline Bates, pen name A. Bates, is an American author, who has written the teen suspense novels ""Party Line"", ""Final Exam"", ""Mother's Helper"", ""The Dead Game"" and ""Krazy 4 U"". Bates's early life was spent in Washington, New Mexico, Idaho and California, with the family moving regularly to follow her father's employment in the nuclear safety field. Eventually, the family moved to Colorado. While Bates won an essay writing contest in elementary school, and always enjoyed writing, she didn't consider doing so for publication until encouraged by a college instructor. ""The Wall Street Journal"" references ""Final Exam"" in"
"ancient New England town, they are unsurpassed for humor, clever character drawing, and delicacy of touch. She died at her home in Boston, Massachusetts, in March, 1886. After her death, Arlo prepared for the press her sketches, ""Old Salem"" (1886), and a novel, ""A Woodland Wooing"" (1889). In her memory, he wrote ""Sonnets in Shadow"", which was dedicated to her. Her son was the archaeologist, Oric Bates (1883–1919). Harriet Bates Harriet Bates (pen name, Eleanor Putnam; July 30, 1856 – March 1886) was a 19th-century American author of poetry and novels. Harriet Leonora Vose was born at Quincy, Illinois, July"
"New York, while the rest of the year, her address was 615 Fifth Avenue, in New York City. Her son Lindon Bates, Jr. also became an engineer; he later perished in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania. Bates died in New York state. Josephine White Bates Josephine White Bates (8 July 1862 – 1934) was a Canadian-born American author who preferred to use her married name Mrs. E. Lindon Bates. She was the author of ""A. Blind Lead"", 1886; ""Bunch-Grass Stories"", 1892; and ""Mercury Poisoning in the Industries of New York City and Vicinity"", 1912. Josephine White was born 8"
"an article about ""wildly popular spooky tales and murder mysteries tailored for teenagers"" in an article entitled ""Gnarlatious Novels: Lurid Thrillers for the Teen Set"". ""The Oregonian"" refers to ""Final Exam"" as one of four ""new paperback hit thrillers"", and Westword gives a paragraph to her book signing for ""Party Line"" and ""Final Exam"". Bates resides in Colorado with her husband. She has three children. A. Bates Auline Bates, pen name A. Bates, is an American author, who has written the teen suspense novels ""Party Line"", ""Final Exam"", ""Mother's Helper"", ""The Dead Game"" and ""Krazy 4 U"". Bates's early life"
"with the television adaptations of his stories ""The Darling Buds of May"" and its sequels as well as adaptations of ""My Uncle Silas"", ""A Moment in Time"", ""Fair Stood the Wind for France"" and ""Love for Lydia"". In his home town of Rushden, H.E. Bates has a road named after him to the west of the town, leading to the local leisure centre. Eads, Peter, 1990, H.E.BATES, A Bibliographical Study, St. Paul's Bibliographies, Winchester, Hampshire, Omnigraphics, Detroit 1990 Eads, Peter, 2007, H.E.BATES, A Bibliographical Study, Oak Knoll Press & British Library, (Oak Knoll Press) (The British Library) Eads, Peter, 1990,"
"Dolores Hitchens Julia Clara Catherine Maria Dolores Robins Norton Birk Olsen Hitchens (December 25, 1907 in San Antonio, Texas – August 1, 1973 in Orange County, California), better known as Dolores Hitchens, was an American mystery novelist who wrote prolifically from 1938 until her death. She also wrote as D. B. Olsen, a version of her first married name, and under the pseudonyms Dolan Birkley and Noel Burke. Hitchens collaborated on five railroad mysteries—""police procedurals about a squad of railroad cops""—with her second husband, Bert Hitchens, a railroad detective. She also branched out into other genres including Western fiction. Many"
"Finis L. Bates Finis Langdon Bates (August 22, 1848 – November 29, 1923) was a Memphis, Tennessee, lawyer and author of ""The Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth"" (1907). In this 309-page book, Bates claimed that John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, was not killed by Union Army Soldiers on April 26, 1865, but successfully eluded capture altogether, and lived for many years thereafter under a series of assumed names, notably John St. Helen and David E. George. Bates was born on a plantation in Itawamba County, Mississippi, in 1848. He was the ninth of"
"Allie Bates Allie Bates (born Memphis, May, 1957) is an American short story writer who has also written Romance and Science Fiction novels and screenplays. She is also an English teacher and freelance editor. Bates received her BA in Creative Writing from the University of Memphis, and her Masters from the University of Memphis College of Education. In the early days of the internet, she worked in Writer's Ink and Macintosh BBS on GEnie. She has written for Woman's World, Byline Magazine, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, Writers on the River and Softdisk Magazine among others. She has written under"
"Joe Gores Joseph Nicholas ""Joe"" Gores (born December 25, 1931, in Rochester, Minnesota, United States; died January 10, 2011, in Greenbrae, California) was an American mystery writer. He was known best for his novels and short stories set in San Francisco and featuring the fictional ""Dan Kearney and Associates"" (the ""DKA Files"") private investigation firm specializing in repossessing cars, a thinly veiled escalation of his own experiences as a confidential sleuth and repo man. Gores was also recognized for his novels ""Hammett"" (1975; made into the 1982 film ""Hammett""), ""Spade & Archer"" (the 2009 prequel to Dashiell Hammett's ""The Maltese"
"moved to Camden, Maine. Bates was a member of the Society of Colonial Wars, the Somerset Club, the Country Club of Brookline and the Vine Book Hunt Club. He was also an honorary trustee of the New England Historic Genealogical Society. Bates died on September 25, 1992 in Camden. Bates is the namesake of an endowed chair at the Harvard Business School held by William E. Fruhan Jr.. George E. Bates (professor) George E. Bates (1902-1992) was an American academic. He was a Professor of Investment Management at the Harvard Business School and the editor of the ""Harvard Business Review""."
"My Uncle Silas My Uncle Silas is a book of short stories about a bucolic elderly Bedfordshire man, written by H.E. Bates and illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. 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 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 true countryman of pithy and roguish character, simultaneously earthy and whimsical, crabbed and"
"liquor and tobacco merchant in Granbury, Texas. The man had a particular tendency toward the theatrical and could recite Shakespeare from memory. Bates and St. Helen cultivated a friendship over five years. In 1878, St. Helen became ill, stating: I am dying. My name is John Wilkes Booth, and I am the assassin of President Lincoln. Get the picture of myself from under the pillow. I leave it with you for my future identification. Notify my brother Edwin Booth, of New York City. St. Helen later recovered and explained in greater detail: Shortly thereafter, St. Helen moved on to Leadville,"
"Albert Bates (criminal) Albert Lawrence Bates (October 16, 1893 – July 4, 1948) was an American bank robber and burglar during the 1920s and 1930s. He used a number of different aliases during his criminal career including George Davis, George Harris and J.B. King. He was the longtime partner of George ""Machine Gun"" Kelly and participated. He helped them break out of jail in 1845. Albert Bates was born on October 16, 1893, to Elizabeth Mary Hughes and Wiley Bates. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1911 but was arrested for desertion and sent to the military prison on"
"a founder of the Anglican Trinity Church in Kingston. In October 1884, Bates married Abigail Lyon; the couple had four children. In 1817, Bates wrote ""The mysterious stranger; or, memoirs of Henry More Smith; alias Henry Frederick Moon; alias William Newman: who is now confined in Simbury mines, in Connecticut, for the crime of burglary; containing an account of his . . . confinement in the gaol of King's County, province of New Brunswick . . . with a statement of his succeeding conduct"". The book was about Henry More Smith, a burglar and confidence man. Bates got to know"
"motives such as shame, ambition, and sibling rivalry for achievement and fame. In 1907, Finis L. Bates wrote ""Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth"", contending that a Booth look-alike was mistakenly killed at the Garrett farm while Booth eluded his pursuers. Booth, said Bates, assumed the pseudonym ""John St. Helen"" and settled on the Paluxy River near Glen Rose, Texas, and later moved to Granbury, Texas. He fell gravely ill and made a deathbed confession that he was the fugitive assassin, but he then recovered and fled, eventually committing suicide in 1903 in Enid, Oklahoma, under the alias ""David"
"Harry Bates (author) Hiram Gilmore ""Harry"" Bates III (October 9, 1900 – September 1981) was an American science fiction editor and writer. His short story ""Farewell to the Master"" (1940) was the basis of the well-known science fiction movie ""The Day the Earth Stood Still"" (1951). Harry Bates was born Hiram Gilmore Bates III on October 9, 1900 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He began working for William Clayton in the 1920s as the editor of adventure pulp magazines. When Clayton proposed a period adventure magazine, Bates suggested several alternatives that he said would be easier to edit, and ""Astounding Science Fiction"""
"A Moment in Time (novel) A Moment in Time is a 1964 novel written by English author H. E. Bates. He based the setting for most of the story on Shopswyke House, a Georgian mansion in Tangmere, West Sussex to which Bates himself was assigned. In the summer of 1940, 19-year-old Elizabeth Cartwright lives a secluded and privileged life in a village in Kent. Her world is turned upside down with the arrival of a group of RAF officers who requisition her family home as a base. She immediately falls for Bill Ogilvie with an old sports-car, then marries 'Splodge'"
"Ralph Bates (writer) Ralph Bates (3 November 1899 – 26 November 2000) was an English novelist, writer, journalist and political activist. He is best known for his writings on pre–Civil War Spain. Bates was born in Swindon, England in 1899 and as a teenager worked at the Great Western Railway factory. In 1917, he enlisted in the British Army and served in World War I, training soldiers to prepare for poison gas attacks. After returning from the war, he began to travel, to France and then, in 1923, to Spain, where he had wanted to visit since boyhood (his great-grandfather,"
"Hall, Meole Brace, near Shrewsbury, after a very short illness, on 5 September 1864. She possessed the happy faculty of interesting the young by apt and attractive instruction, and wrote a number of stories for juvenile readers, and a volume entitled ""Footprints on the Sands of Time. Biographies for Young People. Dedicated to her Nephews and Nieces"", by L. E. B.. The Introduction, addressed to 'My dear Young Friends', is subscribed 'Aunt Lucy', the pseudonym by which the author was best known. Lucy Elizabeth Bather Lucy Elizabeth Bather (1830–1864) was an English writer for children, known as 'Aunt Lucy'. Bather"
"Anthony Boucher Anthony Boucher (; born William Anthony Parker White; August 21, 1911 – April 29, 1968) was an American author, critic, and editor, who wrote several classic mystery novels, short stories, science fiction, and radio dramas. Between 1942 and 1947 he acted as reviewer of mostly mystery fiction for the ""San Francisco Chronicle"". In addition to ""Anthony Boucher"", White also employed the pseudonym ""H. H. Holmes"", which was the pseudonym of a late-19th-century American serial killer; Boucher would also write light verse and sign it ""Herman W. Mudgett"" (another of the murderer's aliases). In a 1981 poll of 17"
"following science fiction anthologies: Harry Bates (author) Hiram Gilmore ""Harry"" Bates III (October 9, 1900 – September 1981) was an American science fiction editor and writer. His short story ""Farewell to the Master"" (1940) was the basis of the well-known science fiction movie ""The Day the Earth Stood Still"" (1951). Harry Bates was born Hiram Gilmore Bates III on October 9, 1900 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He began working for William Clayton in the 1920s as the editor of adventure pulp magazines. When Clayton proposed a period adventure magazine, Bates suggested several alternatives that he said would be easier to edit,"
"12 children of planter Henderson Wesley Bates (Sept. 30, 1807–1869) and Eliza Elvira Jarratt Bourland (Dec. 26, 1815 – Feb. 23, 1900). Finis Bates studied law in Carrollton, Mississippi, and in the 1870s he and his family moved to Texas, where he met John St. Helen. Bates returned to Mississippi, then moved to Memphis, Tennessee, after the death of his first wife and his subsequent marriage. In 1869, Bates married Bertie Lee Money (born 1851). They had two daughters, Emma and Olga Bates, and a son, Bertram Money Bates, Sr. (1870 – Feb. 26, 1934), who married Anne H. ""Annie"""
"H. C. Bailey Henry Christopher Bailey (1878–1961) was an English author of detective fiction. Bailey wrote mainly short stories featuring a medically qualified detective called Reggie Fortune. Fortune's mannerisms and speech put him into the same class as Lord Peter Wimsey but the stories are much darker, and often involve murderous obsession, police corruption, financial skulduggery, child abuse and miscarriages of justice. Although Mr Fortune is seen at his best in short stories, he also appears in several novels. A second series character, Joshua Clunk, is a sanctimonious lawyer who exposes corruption and blackmail in local politics, and who manages"
"Love for Lydia Love for Lydia is a semi-autobiographical novel written by British author H. E. Bates, first published in 1952. Lydia Aspen, a seemingly shy girl from a wealthy but isolated background, is encouraged by her aunts, her new carers, to discover the delights of growing up. They entrust her education to Mr Richardson, the young apprentice for Evensford's local newspaper, who is sent to their house to ""get a story"" about the recent death of Lydia's father. Richardson's access to the Aspens is unusual, as they are rarely seen by anyone from the town and hide behind their"
"and master's from the University of Michigan, and his PhD in 1908 from Columbia University. Ernest Sutherland Bates Ernest Sutherland Bates (14 October 1879 – 4 December 1939) was an American academic and writer. He taught English and philosophy at Oberlin College from 1903 to 1905, the University of Arizona until 1915, and the University of Oregon from then until 1925. After Oregon he became literary editor of the ""Dictionary of American Biography"". He was also associate editor of ""Modern Monthly"" and a contributor to the ""Saturday Review of Literature"". Bates was the co-author, with John V. Dittemore, a former"
"prefaced the (American) first edition of 1941, Powys comments ""the beginning of the fifteenth century […] saw the beginning of one of the most momentous and startling epochs of ""transition"" that the world has known"". This was written in May 1940, and ""[t]here can be no doubt"" that readers of the novel would have ""registered the connection between the actions of the book and the events of their own world"". ""Fair Stood the Wind for France"" is a 1944 novel by H. E. Bates, which is concerned with a pilot of a Wellington bomber, who badly injures his arm when"
"them, all the bastards, all over the world!"" could also be described as an Everyman perspective, a summary of the general attitude towards the war. The Cruise of the Breadwinner The Cruise of the Breadwinner is a novella by the British author H. E. Bates. It was first published in 1946 and has been printed a number of times since. Much like the acclaimed novel ""Fair Stood the Wind for France"", it is one of Bates' war-oriented pieces. The story takes place on board the Breadwinner, an old battered fishing boat, contributing to the war effort by carrying out a"
"""I Married Joan"" and ""Our Miss Brooks"". Florence Bates Florence Bates (born Florence Rabe, April 15, 1888 – January 31, 1954) was an American film and stage character actress who often played grande dame characters in supporting roles. Born in San Antonio, Texas, the second child of Jewish immigrants, Bates showed musical talent as a child, but a hand injury inhibited her from continuing her piano studies. In 1906, she graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in mathematics, after which she taught school. In 1909, she met and married her first husband and gave up"
"Fair Stood the Wind for France Fair Stood the Wind for France is a novel written by English author H. E. Bates. The novel was first published in 1944 and was Bates's first financial success. The title comes from the first line of ""Agincourt"", a poem by Michael Drayton (1563–1631). The story concerns John Franklin, the pilot of a Wellington bomber, who badly injures his arm when he crash-lands the aircraft in German-occupied France during the Second World War. He and his crew make their way to an isolated farmhouse and are taken in by the family of a French"