Arnold Bennett
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Arnold Bennett

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Arnold Bennett

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About this book

During his 1920s heyday, Arnold Bennett was one of Britain's most celebrated writers. As the author of The Old Wives' Tale and Clayhanger he was a household name, writing just as much for the common man as London's literati. His face was plastered over theatre hoardings and the sides of West End omnibuses. His life represents the ultimate rags-to-riches story of a man who 'banged on the door of Fortune like a weekly debt collector' as one of his obituaries so vividly put it.

Yet for all his success, few were aware how cursed Bennett felt by his life-long stutter and other debilitating character traits. In the years running up to his death in 1931, his affairs were close to collapse as he fought a losing battle on three fronts: with his estranged wife; with his disenchanted mistress; and from a literary perspective with Virginia Woolf.

As the first full length biography of Bennett since 1974, the work draws on a wealth of unpublished diaries and letters to shed new light on a personality who can be considered a 'Lost Icon' of early Twentieth Century Britain.

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Information

Publisher
Unicorn
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9781914414473
eBook ISBN
9781911397083
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Biographies
Index
Literature

INDEX

A

  1. Allen, Walter, 1;
    1. ‘toxic’ death-bed rumour, 1
  2. Allingham, Margaret, 1
  3. America Magazine, 1
  4. American Girls’ Club in Paris: ‘unbearably shocking ways’, 1
  5. Angell, Norman, 1
  6. Arnold Bennett Society, 1
  7. Asquith, Herbert Henry, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, 1, 2

B

  1. Baldock, Teddy, 1
  2. Baldwin, Stanley, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, 1
  3. Balzac, Honoré de, 1, 2
  4. Baring, Maurice, 1, 2
  5. Barr, Robert, 1
  6. Barrie, J.M., 1
  7. Barker, Dudley: sensitive allegations, 1; 2, 3
  8. Bax, Arnold, 1
  9. Beardmore, George, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
    1. publishes Arnold Bennett in Love, 1
  10. Beaverbrook, William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron: character; 1;
    1. death vigil, 1;
    2. appointed Minister for Information, 1;
    3. offers AB job, 1;
    4. background, 1;
    5. promotes AB, 1;
    6. their friendship, 1;
    7. Daily Express, 1;
    8. womanising with AB, 1, 2, 3;
    9. holiday in Scotland, 1;
    10. encourages novel about his father, 1;
    11. political plot ‘leaks’, 1;
    12. publishes Marguerite’s memoirs, 1;
    13. advises on Lord Raingo,...

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Dedication
  3. Contents
  4. Foreword
  5. ONE: DEATH WATCH
  6. TWO: A LIFE OF AWKWARDNESS
  7. THREE: THE DAMNEDEST EXPERIENCE
  8. FOUR: BREAKING THE BONDS
  9. FIVE: AN INSIGNIFICANT LITTLE MAN
  10. SIX: JILTED AND MARRIED
  11. SEVEN: A DANGEROUS EQUAL
  12. EIGHT: THE BIGGEST LITERARY LION
  13. NINE: COUNTRY SQUIRE
  14. TEN: WRITERS AT WAR
  15. ELEVEN: MUNITIONS OF THE MIND
  16. TWELVE: WOOLF’S WHIPPING-BOY
  17. THIRTEEN: EVIL GENIUS
  18. FOURTEEN: DAZZLING BLONDE
  19. FIFTEEN: SUCCESS AND SCANDAL
  20. SIXTEEN: BOOK DICTATOR
  21. SEVENTEEN: LAST DINNER
  22. EIGHTEEN: REPUTATION
  23. Endnotes
  24. Sources and Abbreviations
  25. Bibliography
  26. Acknowledgements
  27. About the Illustrations
  28. Index
  29. Plates
  30. Copyright