Enoch Arnold Bennett was an English author, best known as a novelist who wrote prolifically. Between the 1890s and the 1930s he completed 34 novels, seven volumes of short stories, 13 plays, and a daily journal totalling more than a million words. He wrote articles and stories for more than 100 newspapers and periodicals, worked in and briefly ran the Ministry of Information in the First World War, and wrote for the cinema in the 1920s. Sales of his books were substantial and he was the most financially successful British author of his day.
Bennett c. 1920
Lincoln's Inn Fields in 2018
Rue d'Aumale, Bennett's second address in Paris
Bennett, c. 1910
Hanley is one of the six towns that, along with Burslem, Longton, Fenton, Tunstall and Stoke-upon-Trent, amalgamated to form the City of Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, England. The town is the main business, commercial and cultural hub of the wider Potteries area.
Image: Hanley Town Hall geograph.org.uk 3006959
Image: St Marks Church, Shelton geograph.org.uk 4535394
Image: Hanley Flats, Stoke on Trent geograph.org.uk 4615545
Image: Arnold Bennett Statue, Potteries Museum, Hanley geograph.org.uk 6264139