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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.
Inspiration.
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
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A single Uncle Silas story, "Loss of Pride" was published in 1976 in the posthumous collection of Bates' short stories "The Yellow Meads of Asphodel".
Adaptations.
Two series of the short stories were adapted for television. The first aired in 2001 and the second in 2003. They featured Albert Finney as Silas. The BBC also produced some radio adaptations.
Sources.
- H.E. Bates, 1939, "My Uncle Silas" (with author's preface: illustrated by