Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett was born in 1867 in the Staffordshire Potteries, the son of a man who was a potter, draper and pawnbroker before becoming a solicitor. A clerk to his father, he went up to London at twenty-one, edited a women's magazine, and from 1896 kept a journal that he would continue all his life. He then spent eight years in Paris and read the French realists there. He earned a great deal of money from his books and his journalism. He died in 1931 of typhoid caught from drinking water in France.

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• NovelThe Old Wives' TaleArnold Bennett · 1908LiteraturePublic domain