The Arnold Bennett Society

RIP Patricia Routledge. Not the least of her achievements was her role in the musical Darling of the Day (with Vincent Price!), adapted from Arnold Bennett's novel Buried Alive

The Dudson Centre is in Hope Street, Hanley ST1 5DD

Coming up on Saturday afternoon, for your delight ...

(2/2) 'You would not get the same treatment in London under any circumstances' - Arnold Bennett in journal, 26 September 1904 [Bennett had moved to live in Paris in March 1903; the following summer he returned to England, visited HG Wells and went to Scotland in search of a cure for his stammer]

'My absence has had the effect of showing me how well I am established in Paris. Wherever I go, in restaurants and shops, I am recognized and greeted with the warmest cordiality. In three places today I have been the subject of an ovation ...(1/2)

The first of our (free) Heritage Open Day walks is tomorrow, starting at Stoke's Dudson Centre at 2pm. Details at our website

'To write popular fiction is offensive to me, but it is far more agreeable than being tied daily to an office and editing a lady’s paper; and perhaps it is less ignoble, and less of a strain on the conscience.' (3/3)

'Till the end of 1899 I propose to give myself absolutely to writing the sort of fiction that sells itself. My serious novel Anna Tellwright with which I have made some progress is put aside indefinitely – or rather until I have seen what I can do. ... (2/3)

Arnold Bennett in journal, 12 Sept 1898: 'Partly owing to the influence of [Eden] Phillpotts, I have decided very seriously to take up fiction for a livelihood. A certain chronic poverty had forced upon me the fact that I was giving no attention to money-making, beyond my editorship ... (1/3)

London's BFI Southbank (aka the National Film Theatre) is running an Anna May Wong season, so of course there are showings of Piccadilly, 'one of the silent era’s most captivating films', with a scenario by Arnold Bennett
whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

Get to know Arnold Bennett's Five Towns: We have some free Bennett-themed guided walks around Hanley and Burslem for Heritage Open Days on 17 and 19 September, and beyond. Details on our website, and book here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on?q=A...

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8th August - 7th September
FAMOUS FACES FROM STOKE-ON-TRENT’S PAST KID’S TRAIL – Celebrating Stoke100
10am to 3pm
FREE TRAIL
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Arnold Bennett admired Wells's 1895 short story'The Cone' (whose protagonist is the manager of a Potteries ironworks), and wrote to him that he was 'very glad to find that the Potteries made such an impression on you. ... only during the last few years have I begun to see its possibilities'

#onthisday in 1918 (26 August) Arnold Bennett wrote to the War Office recommending T.S. Eliot for the Interpreters Corps: 'I have pleasure in stating that Mr T.S. Eliot … has an intimate knowledge of the French language. Also that he is a writer of distinguished merit'

Arnold Bennett's 'artistic advantage' over Virginia Woolf; our author's fondness for heaving bosoms; @sathnam.bsky.social's Marriage Material on stage ... All this and more in the Society's latest newsletter, newly arrived in members' mailboxes

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
www.newvictheatre.org.uk/productions/...

#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.
www.locus-solus-fr.net?p=1545

@bylinefestival.bsky.social @keeleuniversity.bsky.social talking about my 100Books in a 100Years project for the Stoke centenary. Come say hello!
@artscouncilengland.bsky.social

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
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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