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, 1985.
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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.
The club met for discussion and entertainments every Thursday night in Fitzroy Square, where guests and performers included Winifred Gill
, Shaw
, Yeats
, and Arnold Bennett
. The subscription fee was 5s...
politics
Virginia Woolf
VW
published in The New Statesman two letters on The Intellectual Status of Women. She was responding to views expressed by Desmond MacCarthy
, the Affable Hawk, in a review of Arnold Bennett
's Our Women 1920.
Publishing
Virginia Woolf
VW
published in the Literary Review of the New York Evening Post the first printed version of her influential essay (another work claimed as her literary manifesto
McNeillie, Andrew, and Virginia Woolf. “Introduction”. The Common Reader, Annotated Edition, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984, p. ix - xv.
x
) Mr. Bennett
and Mrs. Brown.
Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan, 1989.
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Publishing
Ella D'Arcy
After The Bishop's Dilemma D'Arcy apparently worked on other novels, including one on the Shelley circle. She showed the manuscript of one to Arnold Bennett
, who liked it. However, it was not published and...
Publishing
Ella Hepworth Dixon
She contributed fiction, essays, and travel articles to many other journals, including the New York Independent, the Westminster Gazette, Arnold Bennett
's Woman, and the Sketch, writing for the last-named on...
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, 1978.
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...
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.
35
, No. 2, 1992, pp. 179-11.
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Mix, Katherine Lyon. A Study in Yellow: The Yellow Book and Its Contributors. Greenwood Press, 1969.
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.
qtd. in
“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, 1999, p. v - xiv.
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Textual Features
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...
Textual Features
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, 1949.
CG
'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, 1961.
Tomalin, Clare. “Constance Garnett (1861 - 1946)”. Breaking Bounds. Six Newnham Lives, edited by Biddy Passmore, Newnham College, 2014, pp. 14-25.
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Textual Production
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
Textual Production
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. Third Edition, Clarendon Press, 1980.
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This essay was a...
Textual Production
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, 1931, 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, 1957.
