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"The Five Towns" is a name given to it in novels by Arnold Bennett, who was born in Hanley and lived in the district. He said that he believed "Five Towns" was more euphonious than "Six Towns", so he omitted Fenton (sometimes referred to as "the forgotten town"). He called Stoke "Knype" but used recognisable aliases for the other four towns.
A story of adventure in the Five Towns 1911 1911 First published serially from February 1910 as Denry the Audacious and published in the US under that title Hilda Lessways: 1911 1911 Second volume of Clayhanger trilogy The Regent: A Five Towns story of adventure in London 1913 Sequel to The Card.
Arnold Bennett was born on 27 May 1867 in Hanley, Staffordshire, now part of Stoke-on-Trent but then a separate town. [1] [2] He was the eldest child of the three sons and three daughters [n 1] of Enoch Bennett (1843–1902) and his wife Sarah Ann, née Longson (1840–1914).
The Grim Smile of the Five Towns is the second major collection of stories written by Arnold Bennett. The book first appeared in print in June 1907. Only around half of the stories had previously appeared in print. The five towns of the title are the conurbation of Stoke-on-Trent in which much of the writer's best work is set.
The Clayhanger Family is a series of novels by Arnold Bennett, published between 1910 and 1918.Though the series is commonly referred to as a "trilogy", and the first three novels were published in a single volume, as The Clayhanger Family, in 1925, there are actually four books.
Anna of the Five Towns is a 1985 British television drama series which first aired on BBC 2. It is an adaptation by John Harvey of the 1902 novel of the same title by Arnold Bennett . [ 1 ]
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Through the works of Arnold Bennett, described by some as the greatest realist writer of the 20th century, [155] the "Six Towns" were sometimes known as the "Five Towns". [156] In his novels, Bennett wrote about local events in the 19th century [157] and consistently changed all proper names and associations, thus Hanley became Hanbridge and ...