Hilda Lessways: Clayhanger's Story from Her Side
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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The woman Edwin Clayhanger loved and lost tells her side: a shorthand clerk in the Potteries, a boarding house in Brighton, a marriage that turns out to be no marriage at all. Arnold Bennett wrote the second Clayhanger book to run alongside the first in time rather than after it, so the same days are lived twice from opposite ends. He knew the Five Towns because he was born in them. Fifty-five plates of Victorian and Edwardian portraits, including George Eliot and Robert Louis Stevenson, give faces to the public world against which Hilda's private story plays out.
The woman Edwin Clayhanger loved and lost tells her side: a shorthand clerk in the Potteries, a boarding house in Brighton, a marriage that turns out to be no marriage at all. Arnold Bennett wrote the second Clayhanger book to run alongside the first in time rather than after it, so the same days...
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Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was an English novelist born in Hanley, Staffordshire, in the pottery towns he made his subject. A solicitor's clerk turned magazine editor, he wrote over thirty novels, ran wartime propaganda for France, and died of typhoid caught from a carafe of water in Paris. His works include The Old Wives' Tale, Clayhanger, Anna of the Five Towns, and Riceyman Steps.
Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was an English novelist born in Hanley, Staffordshire, in the pottery towns he made his subject. A solicitor's clerk turned magazine editor, he wrote over thirty novels, ran wartime propaganda for France, and died of typhoid caught from a carafe of water in Paris. His w...
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