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Arnold Bennett

Lost Icon
  • ISBN-13: 9781914414473
  • Publisher: UNICORN PRESS
    Imprint: UNICORN PRESS
  • By Patrick Donovan
  • Price: AUD $61.99
  • Stock: 27 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 03/08/2022
  • Format: Hardback (234.00mm X 156.00mm) 224 pages Weight: 660g
  • Categories: Biography: literary [BGL]
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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. To his public, Bennett stood for financial prudence, self-improvement and quiet domesticity. Yet Bennett's own affairs were teetering on collapse in the run-up to his death in 1931. He was fighting 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 As the first full length biography of Bennett since 1974, Arnold Bennett: Lost Icon draws on a wealth of unpublished diaries and letters to shed new light on the unquiet, and at times tormented, life of a man who can be considered a 'Lost Icon' of early twentieth-century Britain.
Patrick Donovan is now a full-time biographer after a career in national newspapers and a City PR agency. He was one of the original team behind the launch of the Independent and has held senior staff positions on the Evening Standard and the Guardian where he was City Editor. Short-listed for the Biographers' Club Tony Lothian Prize, his work on Arnold Bennett is based on research for a Masters Dissertation at Buckingham University. He lives in North London.
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