The Arnold Bennett Society

Full Cast Announced for World Premiere of The Grand Babylon Hotel at New Vic Theatre The New Vic Theatre has announced full casting for its world premiere production of The Grand Babylon Hotel, a riotous comedy thriller by Arnold Bennett

The New Vic Theatre has announced full casting for its world premiere production of The Grand Babylon Hotel, a riotous comedy thriller by Arnold Bennett

#onthisday in 1927 (4 Aug) in his Evening Standard column Arnold Bennett continued his 'remarks' on Victorian novelists with George Eliot, Disraeli, Marryat and Trollope - concluding that 'I have not discussed him who is conceivably the greatest of the Victorians. Of course I mean Thomas Hardy'

Tckets selling fast for this adaptation of Arnold Bennett's classic thriller
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#onthisday in 1917 (24 July) Arnold Bennett dined with JM Barrie, Thomas Hardy and wife. Hardy “has all his faculties, unimpaired. Quite modest and without the slightest pose,” AB wrote in his journal [Hardy was then aged 77]

The Grand Babylon Hotel to Receive World Premiere at New Vic Theatre The New Vic Theatre in Newcastle-under-Lyme will stage the world premiere of The Grand Babylon Hotel, a new adaptation of Arnold Bennett’s only thriller, this autumn

The New Vic Theatre in Newcastle-under-Lyme will stage the world premiere of The Grand Babylon Hotel, a new adaptation of Arnold Bennett’s only thriller, this autumn

Arnold Bennett in his journal, 3 July 1897, enjoying the Earl's Court exhibition

Arnold Bennett's ten step plan for learning to appreciate poetry You can do this on your lunch break

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Couverture du roman d’Arnold Bennett, le Grand Hôtel Babylon (10/18).

[Blog] Arnold Bennett, le Grand Hôtel Babylon (1902).
Roman d’hôtel, l’un des premiers du genre, mêlant aventures internationales, satire sociale, romance et comédie loufoque.
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@bylinefestival.bsky.social @keeleuniversity.bsky.social talking about my 100Books in a 100Years project for the Stoke centenary. Come say hello!
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MIchael Eaton looks on as John Lucas, walking stick in hand, points.

A very happy birthday to my friend, the redoubtable poet, professor, novelist, critic, essayist, jazzman & internet avoiding publisher, John Lucas, 88 today. Here's John in his & Pauline's Beeston garden last week with one of Shoestring Press's many writers, Michael Eaton. shoestringpress.co.uk

A happy 88th birthday to John Lucas, author of the still-invaluable 1974 study of Arnold Bennett's novels, and participant in our recent celebration of John Wain's centenary

On 18 June 1926 Arnold Bennett was asked to write an article on “Marriage 100 years hence” for the Daily News. “What footling subjects these editors choose” he noted in his journal

'End of Shift'
Stoke

City of Fire and Beautiful Bricks’
Exhibition at The Glosthouse, Longton. Stoke-On-Trent.
www.theglosthouse.co.uk

An ongoing exhibition of Works both new, and never before exhibited. Painting : Drawing : Collage.
Poetry : @minxyowlwriter.bsky.social
#Stoke100 #SoT100

My review of Jonathan Taylor's prize-winning short story collection, 'Scablands and Other Stories' (Salt Publishing) is up on the Word Factory journal.

Managed to prise my copy from Teddy's clutches...

Today we are celebrating 100 years of the City of Stoke -o-Trent. Great people and excellent pottery

Writing Home: Arnold Bennett, Stoke and Me  Jonathan Taylor “No-one ever comes to Stoke, no-one ever leaves Stoke, except for Arnold Bennett, and even he had to write about it”: when I was growing up in Stoke-on-Trent (aka the Potteries) in the 1970s and 80s, this was a saying that everyone knew. It conveyed Stoke’s insularity, its proud tradition of isolation. At the time, the city was (almost) never mentioned on TV or in books, and felt - to some extent - cut off from the rest of the world.

Writing Home: Arnold Bennett, Stoke and Me 

Jonathan Taylor “No-one ever comes to Stoke, no-one ever leaves Stoke, except for Arnold Bennett, and even he had to write about it”: when I was growing up in Stoke-on-Trent (aka the Potteries) in the 1970s and 80s, this was a saying that everyone knew.…

'I was out at 8 a.m. today. Certainly what interests me is organization. Outside the Magasins du Louvre, the despatch of thousands of parcels in dozens of vans was in full swing. A great effect' - Arnold Bennett in journal, 3 June 1908 (he was living in Paris at the time)

At lunch time yesterday saw Marriage Material. It is set in Wolverhampton and is based on @Arnold Bennett’s Old wives tales 1908.He was the best author from Stoke -on-Trent.

3/3 A number of buildings in Stoke-on-Trent have blue plaques giving the names they're known by in Bennett's novels. This one is on the Old Town Hall in Burslem, which became 'Bursley' in Bennett's fictional landscape. A strange yet pleasing alternative universe overlaying the real one!

This is an aspect of our author which hasn't, we suspect, been given much attention #ArnoldBennett

The author Arnold Bennett was born ##OTD 27 May 1867 in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. He was prolific and successful, many of his books set in what he called 'the five towns' of the Potteries. He sits reading in Bethesda Street, Hanley, outside the Potteries Art Gallery and Museum. 1/3

#onthisday in 1867 Arnold Bennett was born. 'Today I am 37,' he wrote in his journal on 27 May 1904. 'I have lived longer than I shall live.' (This turned out to be true: he died in 1931, at the age of 63)

In today's Stoke Sentinel, Fred Hughes acclaims the Arnold Bennett Book Prize and contemplates the area's other literary associations

The Grand Babylon Hotel by Arnold Bennett One of my aims this year is to re-read a few favourite books with the intention of showcasing them here. Arnold Bennett’s marvellous 1902 novel, The Grand Babylon Hotel falls into this category – a…

"Do you not perceive that the roof which habitually shelters all the force, all the authority of the world, must necessarily also shelter nameless and numberless plotters, evil-doers & workers of mischief? The thing is as clear as day – and as dark as night."
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Another outing for the 1952 adaptation of Arnold Bennett's The Card, starring Alec Guinness, Glynis Johns and a young Petula Clark (director Ronald Neame; screenplay by Eric Ambler; music by William Alwyn)

'Rickards and I went over the vast, unfinished Roman Catholic Cathedral in Victoria Street, and found it distinguished, impressive, a work of great and monumental art' - Arnold Bennett in journal, 22 May 1901 [The architect E.A. Rickards was a long-time friend of Bennett's]

University of Leicester writer, Dr Jonathan Taylor wins Arnold Bennett Book Prize for Scablands and Other Stories | News | University of Leicester A collection of short stories written by the University of Leicester’s Dr Jonathan Taylor has won the Arnold Bennet Book Prize.

"Arnold Bennett was the writer who changed my life when I was 17"
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... and here's a pic of prizewinner Jonathan Taylor, with Morag Jones, head of our judging panel, at yesterday's Arnold Bennett Day

🎉 Congratulations to Jonathan Taylor! 🎉

We are thrilled to share that Jonathan Taylor’s stunning short story collection, Scablands, has just won the 2025 Arnold Bennett Prize!

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It's tomorrow!