The study and appreciation of the life, works and times of Arnold Bennett
Many congratulations to Hannah Scragg on her successful PhD viva exam at Keele University. Hannah’s thesis is entitled ‘Beyond the Five Towns: a re-evaluation of Arnold Bennett’ – a boost for Bennett scholarship! Keele University Humanities & Social Sciences http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hannah_Scragg
Read Article >>1 September: Annual subscription due- renewal form in August Newsletter 17 September: ‘Masters and Men: 200 years of riot and rebellion in the Potteries’. A Heritage Open Day talk with film by Catherine Burgass and Ray Johnson, Burslem Town Hall (Haywood Academy), 7:00 pm – FREE EVENT 19 October: Annual General Meeting, Swan Bank, Methodist Rooms, […]
Read Article >>Poet John Lancaster won the inaugural Arnold Bennett Prize with his fifth volume, Potters: A Division of Labour. Potters is a humorous and poignant tribute to the workers of Alfred Meakin Pottery, where John had a job between school and university. John now lives in Totnes, but has not forgotten his North Staffordshire roots. He […]
Read Article >>FROM THE BIG ISSUE TO CHAPTER CATCHER On a recent visit to Hay-on-Wye (24 May) Marie-Claude and I were suddenly confronted by the impressive presence of a familiar figure. ‘I know you! But I’ve forgotten your names’. The friendly greeting came from John (Lord) Bird, with whom we had had the privilege of dining at […]
Read Article >>Colin Fisher’s Blog April 16, 2019 Enthralling – not interminable For over two years I used Arnold Bennett’s self-help book Literary Taste to find out if, a century after the book’s publication, it was possible to create my own literary taste. To carry on the experiment, I will now read the books reviewed by Arnold […]
Read Article >>Digital Addiction Getting You Down? Try an Analog Cure By Cal Newport. New York Times April 8, 2019 Arnold Bennett was an early-20th-century British novelist, playwright and critic. He’s perhaps best known for his detail-oriented novels set around the Staffordshire Potteries. In 1931, during a trip to Paris, he ignored a waiter’s advice to avoid the […]
Read Article >>Ambition’s the key to reviving derelict sites The following article first appeared in the Sentinel (Stoke on Trent) Monday March 4, 2019 BBC Radio 4’s adaptation over five weekends of Arnold Bennet’s novels, ‘China Towns ‘ is still further evidence of the rich seam of Burlsem’s cultural heritage being in the national spotlight. Again!! Its […]
Read Article >>The annual AB Society conference 13 June, 2020 (provisional) ‘Arnold Bennett’s Social Conscience’ North Staffs Conference Centre, Hartshill
Read Article >>Daniel Akst. For a writer, Arnold Bennett was a pretty good businessman. He earned enough from his prodigious output to buy not just one yacht but two — and the second was so vast, it required a crew of eight. Unjustly forgotten today, Bennett was a literary dreadnought in his own right during the first […]
Read Article >>Saturday 23 February 2019 2.30pm ‘The Romance of the Shop: Life Behind the Counter in the Work of Arnold Bennett and H.G.Wells’, a talk by Professor Deborah Wynne (University of Chester). Friends’ Meeting House, Miller Street, Newcastle Under Lyme, 2.30pm Tea and Biscuits will be served after the talk.
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