Who was Arnold Bennett?
Novelist, Short Story Writer, Dramatist and Journalist. Date and Place of Birth: 27th May 1867, Hanley, Staffordshire, England. Family Background: Son of a Solicitor and eldest of nine children. Education: Middle School, Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire. University of London. Trained to be a Solicitor. Chronology/Biography of Arnold Bennett: 1893: Originally trained as a solicitor he had become a solicitors clerk but turned to journalism and became the Assistant Editor of the Journal Woman. 1896: Became Editor of “Woman”. 1898: He published his first novel The Man from the North. 1902: Moved to Paris where he was to spend ten years writing. 1908: Continued writing novels and his Anna of the Five Towns, which expressed the gritty realism of life in the Potteries was published. 1912: The first part of the Clayhanger series, on which much of his later fame was to rest, was published followed by Hilda Lessways in 1911 and These Twain in 1916. These books again reflected life in the five
