The Darling Buds of May (novel) any barriers to free enterprise. The title of the book is a quote from William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate: / Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, / And summer's lease hath all too short a date;" [...] Pop and Ma Larkin celebrate sex, youth, and vitality. In each novella in the series, Pop Larkin kisses, caresses, and pinches most of the women that he encounters. Ma Larkin expects this behaviour and approves of it. When told that Pop has kissed the middle-aged
Josephine White Bates 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