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In the Words of Arnold Bennett (8): London and Paris
Niels Moeller Lund ‘The Heart of the Empire’, 1904 ‘Annunciata was very English. It had been vouchsafed to her that the English race was the master-stroke of the eternal powers. The very defects of the...
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In the Words of Arnold Bennett (9): On Belief
Hornsey High Street, 1873 ‘She could never say, with joyous fervour: “I believe!” At best she could only assert that she did not disbelieve – and was she so sure even of that? No! Belief had been...
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On Arnold Bennett (1): Sincerity, Truthfulness, and Insight
St. John’s Square, Burslem Following our series of quotations from books by Arnold Bennett, we have decided to compile some choice comments on Arnold Bennett and his fiction, by a range of well-known...
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On Arnold Bennett (2): Realism and Reality
‘My dear Sir, The reading of the Man from the North has inspired me with the greatest respect for your artistic conscience. I am profoundly impressed with the achievement of style. The root of the...
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On Arnold Bennett (3): The Most Modern Writer I Know
Electric Tram in Stoke-on-Trent ‘All Mr. Bennett’s stories have the one striking attribute – a lavish vitality expended, not on sentiment or on philosophy, but on sheer joy in contemporary life as a...
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On Arnold Bennett (4): Go On, Great Man!
‘My dear Bennett, You know what life is. I have really wanted badly to write you at length about The Old Wives Tale and make you understand that it isn’t simply just genial mutual flattery and so...
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On Arnold Bennett (5): Greatness beyond Glamour
‘Man Reading’ by Barnett Freedman (c.1925) ‘The hero, Clayhanger, is merely a nice young fellow who likes to read and yearns for a more elegance and refinement than his home can offer him. Without...
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On Arnold Bennett (6): Jolly Gargoyles
‘Now the danger that dogs Mr. Bennett’s more sober achievements, built up with such Euclidean logic, tracing causes with such exquisite clarity, is that they may fail to convey the sense of the...
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The Lloyd-Georgian period?
David Lloyd-George ‘Today essentially belongs to the Minister who once presided at the Board of Trade. Several attempts indeed have been made to describe the literature, art and drama of the present as...
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Something in the general feel of everything
Celebrating the Relief of Mafeking in Piccadilly, 1900 ‘Out in the crowd against the railings, with his arm hooked in Annette’s, Soames waited. Yes! the Age was passing! What with this Trade Unionism,...
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