Welcome to Beyond the Five Towns, a place to explore the works and world of author Arnold Bennett (1867-1931).
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Exploring the works and world of author Arnold Bennett (1867-1931)
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Howard Coster, Arnold Bennett, July 1929, bromide print, National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG x136846. -
Enrique Casanova, Farol da Guia, Cascais (Guia Lighthouse, Cascais), c. 1901. This essay was published in Arnold Bennett’s first series of Things That Have Interested Me (1921). The collection also includes essays about opera, football, ‘sex equality’, Henry James and many, many other topics. Although the title of this piece suggests a narrow and mundane topic, as so often with Bennett the familiar leads to the more profound.
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Rupert Bunny, A Cup of Chocolate (also known as At the Table), 1911, oil on canvas. This short story by Arnold Bennett was published in The Grim Smile of the Five Towns (1907). Vera Cheswardine and her husband Stephen also feature in another story from this collection, Vera’s First Christmas Adventure.
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George Butler, The Artist’s Wife at the Piano, c. 1910, oil on canvas, Christchurch Art Gallery, 2011/224. ‘Vera’s First Christmas Adventure’ is one of several short stories by Arnold Bennett featuring Vera Cheswardine and her husband Stephen. It was published in the collection The Grim Smile of the Five Towns (1907).
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