The English novelist and dramatist Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was the author of The Old Wives' Tale, a masterpiece of realism. Arnold Bennett was born on May 27, 1867, in Hanley, one of the pottery-making "Six Towns" of central England. The youth,...

Enoch Arnold Bennett was a multifaceted celebrity in his day--novelist, short-story writer, critic, journalist, playwright, travelogue writer, prodigious letter writer, watercolorist, member of government, yachtsman--with diverse interests and...

Straw was laid in the streets outside Chiltern Court, to deaden sounds, while Arnold Bennett lay dying in his flat there. It was the last time the city of London was to pay such respect to a public figure. To some extent this respect was nostalgic...

Arnold Bennett was born in Hanley, Staffordshire, in 1867. In 1893 he became assistant editor and then editor of the weekly magazine 'Woman'. 'Anna of the Five Towns', from which this extract is taken, was published in 1902 and was the first of his...

The opening lines of Arnold Bennett's 1923 novel Riceyman Steps seem to herald an aesthetically and stylistically retarded exercise in late nineteenth-century realism--a self-consciously detached, rationalistic, and materialistic study of a selected set of purportedly ordinary human experiences. Apparently to this end, the...