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- ID
- b299
- Title
- "The Four Beauties."
- Genre
- Novella
- Page Count
- 48
- Word Count
- 13000
- Publisher
- Woman's Own
- Publication Year
- 1966
- Document Types
- Film & Television
- Radio Dramatizations
- Autobiographical
- First-Person Narratives
- Character: Richardson
- Topics
- Rushden, Sex, Northamptonshire, Journalism
A reminiscence of newspaper reporter Richardson (who appears also in Love for Lydia) which reflects Bates's Northamptonshire Chronicle experiences and concerns the narrator's romantic involvements with each of three lovely and highly-sexed daughters, as well as their mother.
An adaptation for the television series Country Matters featuring Jan Francis was aired in March 1973. The novella was dramatized by Gregory Evans for BBC Radio in 1986 in a production starring Mark Payton, Jenny Quayle and Diana Bishop, and directed by Gordon House.
In Woman's Own (April 23, 30, 1966), The Four Beauties (1968), The Best of H.E. Bates (1980).
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