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.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Rhoda Broughton
An article by Eliza Lynn Linton written in June 1887 (well after the ebbing of RB 's early, scandalous reputation) judged that her books were always essentially love-stories, and nothing else,
Linton, Eliza Lynn. “Miss Broughton’s Novels”. Temple Bar, Vol.
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, pp. 196-09.
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but that without...
Literary responses Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Admirers of Lady Audley included Thackeray , according to his daughter Anne .
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland.
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Arnold Bennett gave it very high praise. Of the passage in which Lucy Audley decides to try to murder Robert, he...
Literary responses Mary Elizabeth Braddon
By 1901 MEB was so firmly established in the literary scene that Arnold Bennett commented: She is a part of England . . . she has woven herself into it.
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland.
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She declined this year...
Literary responses Mary Elizabeth Braddon
By the time of her death, MEB 's novels had received praise from many great writers of her day, including George Moore , Arnold Bennett , Robert Louis Stevenson and Thomas Hardy . Her astonishingly...
Reception Elizabeth Bowen
Cyril Connolly expressed his admiration in the New Statesman, where he was reviewing a novel for the first time.
Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf.
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The Hotel was the April 1928 selection of the fairly new Book-of-the-Month Club in...

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