The Independent - London, April 14th, 2002
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 books to use the Potteries as a setting. He died in 1931. The Park rose in terraces from the railway station to a street of small villas almost on the ridge of the hill. From its gilded gates to its smallest geranium-slips it was brand-new, and most of it was red. The keeper's house, the bandstand, the kiosks, the balustrades the shelters - all the...
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