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   Marjorie Warner is the Real Mrs. Pumphrey. According to Jim Wight’s biography of his father, this character of a rich older woman was based on a Mrs. Marjorie Warner of Sowerby, a local ...

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2. www.dailymail.co.uk › femail › article-8765955James Herriot's children reveal truth behind All Creatures ...

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   Sep 23, 2020 · The woman Alf married, Joan Danbury, was a corn-mill secretary, so impecunious that her marriage dowry to him was half-ownership of a pig she jointly reared!

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3. www.nytimes.com › 1999/07/18 › nyregionJoan Wight, Wife and Model for Author Herriot - The New York ...

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   Jul 18, 1999 · Joan Wight, the widow of the Yorkshire veterinarian who wrote under the name James Herriot and the model for a character in his books and television programs based on them, died on Wednesday.

4. www.hellomagazine.com › film › 507051All Creatures Great and Small: Meet the real James, Helen ...

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   Nov 9, 2023 · The character Helen Alderson is based on James Alfred Wight's real wife, Joan Danbury.

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5. www.creators.com › read › travel-and-adventureAll Things Remembered at the World of James Herriot Museum

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   Mar 20, 2016 · On March 28, 2015, a bronze statue of James Alfred Wight — "James Herriot" — was erected in the museum's garden on the day his wife, Joan Catherine Danbury Wight (she inspired the character ...

6. www.pbs.org › wgbh › masterpieceMeet the Cast of All Creatures Great and Small - PBS

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   “What I love about her the most is what I learned from meeting the real-life Helen’s (Joan Danbury Wight) children, Rosie and Jim; that she is mischievous and fun loving in spite of having ...

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   Did Wight and Joan Danbury live together?

   • It’s quite true that Wight both lived and worked with his boss there, becoming a full partner in 1949. Helen Alderson may be the character least like her true-life counterpart. Joan Danbury was not a farmer’s daughter, but worked as a secretary in a Thirsk corn mill.

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   Who was Joan Wight?

   • TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Joan Wight, the widow of the Yorkshire veterinarian who wrote under the name James Herriot and the model for a character in his books and television programs based on them, died on Wednesday. She was in her 80's.

   Joan Wight, Wife and Model for Author Herriot (Published 1999)

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   Who was Joan Danbury?

   • Joan Danbury was not a farmer’s daughter, but worked as a secretary in a Thirsk corn mill. She was an attractive girl who had several admirers when young and single, according to her children. Joan was, in fact, previously engaged but unlike Helen Alderson, never left a groom at the altar.

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   What happened to Joan Wight?

   • It was a magnificent, loving ending.'' Ms. Wight is survived by a son, James, and a daughter, Rosemary Page, both of Yorkshire in northern England. A version of this article appears in print on , Section 1, Page 33 of the National edition with the headline: Joan Wight, Wife and Model for Author Herriot.

   Joan Wight, Wife and Model for Author Herriot (Published 1999)

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8. www.realyorkshireblog.com › post › alf-wight-theAlf Wight - the "real James Herriot" - Realyorkshireblog

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   Dec 2, 2020 · A modest, self-described ‘run-of-the-mill’ country vet, James Herriot (pseudonym for Alf Wight), became internationally famous as the author of around eight books (plus omnibuses and children’s books and the very popular James Herriot’s Yorkshire), mainly autobiographical about the life and work of a country vet in the Yorkshire Dales. Their appeal was due to the humour arising from ...