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.
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.
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living writers into two...
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Virginia Woolf
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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This essay was a...
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James Joyce
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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Margaret Drabble
MD
pursued both her interest in literary history and her local interest in the Potteries with Arnold Bennett
: A Biography.
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's translation of Dostoevsky
's The Brothers Karamazov appeared: this version, suggested to her by Arnold Bennett
, was the first time that any of Dostoevsky's works had been translated into English.
Heilbrun, Carolyn. The Garnett Family. Allen and Unwin.
Tomalin, Clare. “Constance Garnett (1861 - 1946)”. Breaking Bounds. Six Newnham Lives, edited by Biddy Passmore, Newnham College, pp. 14-25.
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Naomi Mitchison
By the early 1930s NM
was making as much by her writing, in real terms, as nearly fifty years later. She reviewed novels—reading at great speed even while breast-feeding, since she claimed that [i]f the...
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Deborah Moggach
DM
has written a number of TV screenplays, both from her own prose and that of others, and in the form of original scripts, from which several of her novels were expanded. She has adapted...
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Rebecca West
RW
's bio-critical pamphlet Arnold Bennett Himself questioning the literary merit of Bennett
(who had died of typhoid on 26-27 March this year) and admired his portentous personality
West, Rebecca. Arnold Bennett Himself. John Day, http://UofA.
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as his greatest creation.
Hutchinson, G. Evelyn. A Preliminary List of the Writings of Rebecca West, 1912-1951. Yale University Library.
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Dorothy Richardson
In addition to her chosen themes, DR
also charts the development of female consciousness through her literary techniques, which strongly disrupt gender, generic, and linguistic conventions. In her 1938 foreword to Pilgrimage, she recalls...
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Willa Cather
Here she complains that the modern novel has been taken over by [t]he property-man, by an obsession with the vivid presentation of material objects.
Cather, Willa. On Writing. Editor Tennant, Stephen, Alfred A. Knopf.
The novelist Arnold Bennett
, with whom they exchanged frequent visits, described their home as a place of literature, quietude, the restraint of an eighteenth-century demeanor—and sincere artistic purpose too.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Stetz, Margaret, and George Paston. “Introduction”. A Writer of Books, Academy Chicago Publishers, p. v - xiv.
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Reception
Ella D'Arcy
EDA
's slim output has made it easier for posterity to ignore her. But both Arnold Bennett
and Ford Madox Ford
thought highly of her.
Fisher, Benjamin Franklin. “Ella D’Arcy: A Commentary with a Primary and Annotated Secondary Bibliography”. English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, Vol.
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, No. 2, pp. 179-11.
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Mix, Katherine Lyon. A Study in Yellow: <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="j">The Yellow Book</span> and Its Contributors. Greenwood Press.
This novel deals with miseries arising from domestic misunderstanding, in this case between Lettice Trent, who keeps house for her brother, and his new wife, Marie. While he was disconcerted by the subject-matter (Conceive...
Timeline
2 September 1914: The British War Propaganda Bureau (newly...
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2 September 1914
The British War Propaganda Bureau
(newly formed along the lines of a similar body in Germany) summoned twenty-five writers to discuss the production of texts that would boost national feeling and the war effort.
By April 1929: The Book Society (first conceived of by Arnold...
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By April 1929
The Book Society
(first conceived of by Arnold Bennett
) was launched by Hugh Walpole
with himself as chairman; it was the first such society in Britain.
Texts
Bennett, Arnold. Anna of the Five Towns. Chatto and Windus, 1902.
Bennett, Arnold. Fame and Fiction. Books for Libraries Press, 1975.
Bennett, Arnold. Imperial Palace. Cassell, 1930.
Bennett, Arnold. “Journalism for Women. A Practical Guide”. Project Gutenberg.
Bennett, Arnold. Journalism for Women. A Practical Guide. John Lane, 1898.
Bennett, Arnold. Lord Raingo. Cassell, 1926.
Bennett, Arnold. The Old Wives’ Tale. Nelson and Sons, 1908.