Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931

Arnold Bennett was a British novelist, dramatist, short-story writer, literary critic, journalist, and editor.

Arnold Bennett, English novelist, dramatist, short-story writer, literary critic, journalist, and editor.

English novelist, journalist, and playwright, born Enoch Arnold Bennett.

Arnold Bennett, an English novelist, dramatist and critic, was born Enoch Arnold in Stoke-on-Trent. His novels realistically depict English provincial or lower class society. He also wrote nearly 3000 pieces for newspapers and magazines. His popular and respected column "Books and Persons" appeared in the London weekly New Age, 1908-1911 and in The Evening Standard, 1926-1931.

Enoch Arnold Bennett was a British novelist, short story writer, playwright, editor, journalist, and scholar.

English novelist, dramatist, and critic.

English novelist, dramatist, short-story writer, literary critic, journalist, and editor.

English novelist, dramatist and critic. Born Enoch Arnold Bennett in Stoke-on-Trent, his novels realistically depict English provincial or lower class society. He also wrote nearly 3000 pieces for newspapers and magazines. His popular and respected column "Books and persons" appeared in the London weekly New age 1908-1911 and in The evening standard 1926-1931.

Prolific and versatile, English author Arnold Bennett wrote serious fiction, fantasy, drama, essays, and reviews, demonstrating traditional literary values alongside the willingness to embrace innovation. Bennett considered himself primarily a journalist, and his views on practically everything proved to be popular and influential in his time.

(Enoch) Arnold Bennett (1867-1931), the novelist, playwright, and man of letters. For a fuller account of his life and achievements see the Dictionary of National Biography .

English author.

English journalist and novelist, born Enoch Arnold Bennett.

Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was an English novelist, playwright and critic. He was born in the town of Hanley, Staffordshire, the eldest of six children of a solicitor. Strict Wesleyan Methodists, his parents were also musical, artistic and well-read. Bennett acquired a knowledge of French as well as a sound education, including art instruction, and continued to paint throughout his life. In 1885, Bennett joined his father's office with the idea of going to London University for a law degree, instead, he joined another solicitor's firm as a clerk at the age of twenty-one, and set out to become a writer. In 1893 he took a job with a weekly magazine, Woman, where he provided beauty hints and advice to the lovelorn as "Gwendolyn." By 1896 he had become editor of the magazine, but resigned in 1900 to devote himself to more serious work. Bennett's first major novel, Anna of the Five Towns, was published in 1902, and he moved to Paris, where he remained for ten years. Bennett collaborated on plays with Eden Phillpotts and published a succession of novels and plays during his stay in Paris. His "The Old Wives' Tale" published in 1908, is widely considered a masterpiece. By the time he returned to England in 1912, Bennett had established himself as a man of influence in English letters. During World War I, Bennett achieved a different kind of notoriety as a propagandist for the Allied cause in England. He was sent to France to report discreetly on conditions at the front, and published "Over There" in 1915. Although Bennett was criticized for writing too many popular novels, some of his works are still deemed to have great artistic merit. He went to France at the end of 1930, but became ill and returned to London where he died in 1931, after a struggle with typhoid fever. He had become such a famous figure that straw was laid in the streets to deaden the noise during his illness.

Author.

Arnold Bennett, British novelist, playwright, essayist and critic.

Enoch Arnold Bennett was born in Staffordshire on 27 May 1867. In 1885 he joined his father's office in order to finish preparing for matriculation at the University of London and to study for a law degree which he never completed. In 1888 he left Staffordshire to become a clerk at a firm of London solicitors. After working as a freelance journalist and writing several novels and short stories, Bennett in 1893 became the assistant editor, later editor (1896) of the weekly journal Woman . At the end of 1902 Bennett left England for Paris. While in Paris Bennett continued to write. He remained in Paris until 1912, when he returned to England.

During World War One, 1914-1918, Bennett became a public servant, serving on the War Memorials and Wounded Allies Relief Committee and head of propaganda in France. Whilst in France Bennett wrote on the conditions at the front. After the war Bennett published several novels and contributed articles to the Evening Standard newspaper. After a trip to France, he returned to London in January 1931, ill with typhoid fever. Bennett died on 27 March 1931.