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4 unusual facts about Arnold Bennett


How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day (1910), written by Arnold Bennett, is part of a larger work entitled How to Live.

Hugh Selwyn Mauberley

Poems VI-XII are a brief overview of British culture as Pound found it when he arrived in London in 1908, starting with the Preraphaelites and the Rhymers' Club, and closing with vignettes of three writers (Max Beerbohm, Arnold Bennett, Ford Madox Ford), a suburban wife and a literary hostess.

Signal 1

The station's name is derived from "Signal" the name of the newspaper in Arnold Bennett's local novels.

Stella Richman

For Thames she oversaw Trevor Griffiths serial Bill Brand (1976) and for ATV, Clayhanger (1976), a 26 part dramatisation of the Arnold Bennett cycle of novels.


Ethel Sands

Henry James, Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry and Arnold Bennett were among the writers of the "cultural elite" who visited her.

Harold Hales

He claimed to be the inspiration for the title character of Arnold Bennett's The Card.

Holy Deadlock

Arnold Bennett wrote that he was "very disappointed indeed" by it, and E. V. Lucas wrote that he loathed "adultery discussions in public. The theatre ... should be jollier than that".


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Riceyman Steps

Arnold Bennett was a keen amateur sailor and it was while on sailing trips on the Solent he discovered a chaotic second-hand bookshop in Southampton.