Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Arnold Bennett
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Standard Name: Bennett, Arnold
Birth Name: Enoch Arnold Bennett
Used Form: E. A. Bennett
An extraordinarily prolific English writer of both literary-realist and mass-interest novels, short stories, pocket philosophy self-help manuals, plays, journal articles and book reviews, AB
was acclaimed as an artist in his own time and was also politically and culturally influential. He served as director of the Ministry of Propaganda under Lord Beaverbrook
in the first world war. He estimated his own output in 1930 as seventy or eighty books written, of which only a handful were well-known.
Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 34. Gale Research.
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His wealth and influence, as well as his painstaking realism, earned him the scorn of the modernist writers of the next generation.
Preparing a defence against the allegations, Joyce's lawyer, Morris L. Ernst
, obtained hundreds of written opinions from educators, librarians, writers, clergy, and business people. Among those quoted in Ernst's court brief were Rebecca West
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It was reprinted in The Nation and Athenæum (of which Leonard Woolf was then literary editor) on 1 December 1923 and in the Living Age (Boston) on 2 February 1924.
Kirkpatrick, Brownlee Jean. A Bibliography of Virginia Woolf. Clarendon Press.
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pursued both her interest in literary history and her local interest in the Potteries with Arnold Bennett
: A Biography.
Character in Fiction, the further essay which emerged from Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown, is reflective, philosophical, fictional, its tone assertive, witty, ironical, and serious. It ranges
Woolf, Virginia. The Essays of Virginia Woolf. Editors McNeillie, Andrew and Stuart Nelson Clarke, Hogarth Press.