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1974, the work draws on a wealth of unpublished diaries and letters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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