The Darling Buds of May (novel) film "The Mating Game" in 1959. ITV produced a television series based on the novel and its sequels, "The Darling Buds of May", which ran from 1991 to 1993. The Darling Buds of May (novel) The Darling Buds of May is a novella by British writer H. E. Bates, first published in 1958. It was the first of a series of five books about the Larkins, a rural family from Kent. Pop and Ma Larkin and their many children take joy in nature, each other's company, and almost constant feasts. Their only income is through selling scrap, picking strawberries, and
E. H. Thompson and Browning's "veined humanity." E. H. Thompson Mrs. E. H. Thompson was an American author and educator who wrote "From the Thames to the Trossachs", published by New York company Hunt and Eaton in 1890. She was an active writer in the 1870s through to the early 1900s at least. Much of her work was published by the "Zion's Herald" (later to be known as The Progressive Christian), a Methodist weekly magazine. Her contributions to the "Herald" had a moral and religious focus, recommending school activities and prayers for school children, and warning of the dangers of excessive drinking. "From