| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Arnold Bennett, when reading [Herbert] Spencer's posthumously published Autobiography (1904), found the account "disa... | Arnold Bennett | Herbert Spencer | Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | It is amusing to find him writing to Sturt, in 1900, to persuade him that it would be a good idea to try to sell 'Bett... | Arnold Bennett | George Sturt | The Bettesworth Book | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | He went to bed that night to read about the death of Jules from the Goncourt 'Journals', in order to put himself into ... | Arnold Bennett | Edmund de Goncourt | Journals | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Arnold Bennett to George Sturt, 29 October 1895: "'I have just read Marie Corelli's new book -- my first of hers. I c... | Arnold Bennett | Marie Corelli | ? The Sorrows of Satan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Bennett] '. . .reread Balzac and de Maupassant and wondered whether he would be acccused of plagiarism.' | Arnold Bennett | Honore de Balzac | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . he was reading Gaboriau's detective fiction enthusiastically at this time, and makes several polite acknowledge... | Arnold Bennett | Gaboriau | [detective fiction] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'In spite of his own decided irreligion, [Arnold] Bennett kept the Bible at his bedside and read it.' | Arnold Bennett | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' ... when Arnold Bennett was reading Mrs [Edith] Wharton's "The House of Mirth" (1905), he concluded: "It can just be... | Arnold Bennett | Edith Wharton | The House of Mirth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '...he had read so much of de Maupassant, and had admired him for so many years, that probably his manner and his con... | Arnold Bennett | Guy de Maupassant | Bel-Ami | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When he reread "Une Vie", in March 1908, he could find faults, but they were irrelevant to the work that had been don... | Arnold Bennett | Guy de Maupassant | Une Vie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A more recent influence was Huysmans' "Les Soeurs Vatards", a novel about artisan life in a lace-maker's atelier in P... | Arnold Bennett | Joris Karl Huysmans | Les Soeurs Vatards | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . Jules Claretie's "L'Histoire de la R?volution de 1870-1871." He says that he "looked at the pictures" in Clare... | Arnold Bennett | Jules Claretie | L'Histoire de la R?volution de 1870-1871 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He did a good deal of research, reading up the "Victoria History of the Potteries" and various other documentary sour... | Arnold Bennett | unknown | Victoria History of the Potteries | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "He would read acts of 'The Honeymoon' aloud to the two women, conscious that he did not read well, but considering it... | Arnold Bennett | Arnold Bennett | The Honeymoon | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . her short stories, 'The Little Karoo', all set in the South Africa of her childhood, were widely admired and ar... | Arnold Bennett | Pauline Smith | The Little Karoo | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Bennett had read "Ann Veronica", which Wells had sent him that October with an inscription "The Young Mistress's Tale... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | Ann Veronica | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . his reading of that remarkable book, "When I was a Child, Recollections of an Old Potter"'. | Arnold Bennett | William Shaw | When I was a Child, Recollections of an Old Potter | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In January he had read Wells's 'The New Machieavelli' . . .[sic]' | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | New Machiavelli, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The play was finished after a long summer of hard work on 24 August: they sat in an arbour to read it with an audienc... | Arnold Bennett | Arnold Bennett | Milestones | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'When it rained, Bennett stayed in the cabin and read Dostoevsky.' | Arnold Bennett | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the November before, he had said to himself as he sat reading history, "I am 46. On the decline. why fill my head ... | Arnold Bennett | | [history] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'In a letter to Mrs Herzog he says: "Wells's new novel, Marriage, of which I have just read the proofs, contains more ... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | Marriage | Manuscript: Unknown, proofs of book |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . reading the reviews, not even the book, of Mrs Parnell's "Life of Parnell". There was a full-page review in "T... | Arnold Bennett | | Times, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . reading the reviews, not even the book, of Mrs Parnell's "Life of Parnell". There was a full-page review in "T... | Arnold Bennett | | Times Literary Supplement, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Rather like celibate life in Paris again. I dined at the club and read Macready's diary;. . .' | Arnold Bennett | William Charles Macready | [diary] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He had recommended T.S. Eliot to the War Office in 1918, and continued to praise his poetry and his periodical, the "... | Arnold Bennett | T. S. Eliot | Criterion, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'He read "The Lost Girl" at the end of November just when he was himself most deeply engaged in trivia, and immediatel... | Arnold Bennett | D.H. Lawrence | Lost Girl, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The conception of this particular novel ["Riceyman Steps"] was probably sparked off by the discovery, in an old South... | Arnold Bennett | F. Sommer Merryweather | Lives and Anecdotes of Misers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '...he read widely about working-class life in the district.' | Arnold Bennett | unknown | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Intellectually, he seems to have been most concerned with the affairs of Middleton Murry's new periodical, the "Adelp... | Arnold Bennett | Mioddleton Murry | Adelphi, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '...he confessed that he could not understand a word of Gertrude Stein.' | Arnold Bennett | Gertrude Stein | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When Middleton Murry attacked George Moore in an editorial of the "Adelphi" in April 1924, he [Arnold Bennett] wrote ... | Arnold Bennett | John Middleton Murry | Wrap me up in my Aubusson Carpet | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '...he continued to . . . reassess his first loves, such as Balzac, whom he begins to doubt: in May 1926 he finds him ... | Arnold Bennett | Balzac | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '. . .he was annoyed with Capes for misquoting his enthusiasm for Joyce in an advertisement for "Portrait of the Artis... | Arnold Bennett | | | Print: Advertisement |
| 1900-1945 | 'He was annoyed by some of Priestley's comments in "The Mercury" (February 1924) as he notes in his journal . . .' | Arnold Bennett | J.B. Priestley | Mercury, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'There Bennett worked on his novel, read Dreiser and Balzac, . . .' | Arnold Bennett | Theodore Dreiser | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Although Bennett had reservations about the book, he had enjoyed it, and had at once written to tell his friend so'. | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | The World of William Clissold | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'D. H. Lawrence . . . reviewed the novel [The World of William Clissold by Wells] in the "Calendar" of October 1926, i... | Arnold Bennett | D.H. Lawrence | [review of H.G. Wells's "The World of William Clissold"] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'On 9 February he read in the paper news that turned his mind from the future to the past. His old friend George Stur... | Arnold Bennett | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'He travelled alone, by train, . . . reading "The Brothers Karamazov" for the fourth time'. | Arnold Bennett | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Brothers Karamazov, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Bennett had seen a placard announcing its publication in Cassell's "Storyteller" magazine on Victoria Station just be... | Arnold Bennett | | | Print: Advertisement, Poster |
| 1900-1945 | 'Bennett, Dorothy, and the Board of Sloane Productions Ltd read all the notices the next day and found them satisfacto... | Arnold Bennett | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'He even found time to be as courteous and helpful as ever to old friends, reading through, for instance, William Roth... | Arnold Bennett | William Rothenstein | Men and Memories | Manuscript: typescript |
| 1900-1945 | 'He returned to London to . . . Somerset Maugham's "Cakes and Ale", which he admired . . .' | Arnold Bennett | W Somerset Maugham | Cakes and Ale | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He returned to London to . . . Lawrence's "Virgin and the Gipsy", which he admired even more [than "Cakes and Ale"].' | Arnold Bennett | D.H. Lawrence | Virgin and the Gipsy, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He had been reading, she said, J.W. Dunne's "Experiment with Time" - also Einstein and Addington.' | Arnold Bennett | J.W. Dunne | Experiment with Time, An | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Do not fail to get the Literary Supplement to the New York Times for Oct 4th & see W.L. Alden?s extraordinary appreci... | Arnold Bennett | W.L. Alden | article/review of "Anna of the Five Towns" | Print: Newspaper, Literary Supplement |
| 1900-1945 | 'By the way the reviews of "Leonora" in Athenaeum, Sketch, & T.P.?s Weekly have much pleased me. The swine on the Chr... | Arnold Bennett | | [reviews] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'And another early serial of mine, which he [Tillotson] bought, is just beginning in La Sera, of Milan. I had the adv... | Arnold Bennett | | | Print: Advertisement |
| 1900-1945 | 'I notice that Chatto is leaving "Hugo" out of his advertising list. . . . He has a permanent advertisement in today?... | Arnold Bennett | | | Print: Advertisement, Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It ["Hugo"] was also left out of his [Andrew Chatto's] advt in the Times on Friday. Perhaps you can ascertain the re... | Arnold Bennett | | | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read through the 12 lessons of the Literary Correspondence College, & made a few corrections & suggestions, & ... | Arnold Bennett | | | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'You will receive in a few days the typescript of the novel of your new client, Mrs Farley, 16 rue de la Paix. . . . ... | Arnold Bennett | Agnes Farley | Ashdod | Manuscript: typescript |
| 1900-1945 | 'Conrad?s book, though of course very distinguished, is not as good as his last.'
| Arnold Bennett | Joseph Conrad | Secret Agent, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Do you want Frank Harris? If so, I think I could bring him into the fold. . . . His last book "The Bomb" (which is ... | Arnold Bennett | Frank Harris | Bomb, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He [Frank Harris] has two or three books unpublished; including one on Shakespeare which is probably the most penetra... | Arnold Bennett | Frank Harris | | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'He [Waugh] told me he expected the book to keep on selling. You might give him to understand that the eyes of Europe ... | Arnold Bennett | | | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '[W.L. George] wrote a good little book on modern France. This is all I know of his work, except newspaper articles.'... | Arnold Bennett | W.L. George | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have this day despatched to you in two book packets, a copy of "The Regent". You may take it positively from me th... | Arnold Bennett | Arnold Bennett | Regent, The | Manuscript: manuscript of new novel (typescript?) |
| 1900-1945 | 'By the way, My Journal is now in its eighteenth volume, and almost the whole of it is yet in manuscript. Whenever I ... | Arnold Bennett | Arnold Bennett | Journal | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I infinitely regret to say that having read the 2 vols of "Sinister Street", I don?t think it is permanent work; the ... | Arnold Bennett | Compton McKenzie | Sinister Street | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 |
'I return the draft contract. It seems to me that the alteration in clause 3 practically abolishes the stock rights... | Arnold Bennett | | legal contract | Print: draft legal contract |
| 1900-1945 |
The contract is not entirely in my favour, and neither you nor any other experienced manager would be so foolish a... | Arnold Bennett | | legal contract | Print: draft legal contract |
| 1900-1945 | 'If Machen?s onslaught is worse than Jimmy Douglas?s in the ?Star?, it will be a treat.'
| Arnold Bennett | James Douglas | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have received some copies of "The Roll Call". They are odious in a very high degree. I do not complain of the qua... | Arnold Bennett | Arnold Bennett | The Roll Call | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have received some copies of 'The Roll Call'. They are odious in a very high degree. I do not complain of the qua... | Arnold Bennett | Arnold Bennett | The Roll Call | Manuscript: proofs |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read the latter. ["The Lost Girl".] It is very remarkable indeed, and would be great if it had a real the... | Arnold Bennett | D.H. Lawrence | Lost Girl, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read the scenario of "The Old Wives" Tale.'
| Arnold Bennett | unknown | Old Wives' Tale, The | Manuscript: Sheet, typescript film scenario |
| 1900-1945 | 'On Saturday I saw for the first time an advertisement of this book, [Lilian] which I suppose has been out for quite a... | Arnold Bennett | | | Print: Advertisement |
| 1850-1899 | '... he devotes a whole serious and excellent essay to an exploration of the fame of Silas Hocking, who wrote novels c... | Arnold Bennett | Silas Hocking | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'With the Marriotts, Bennett found himself among friends. This was a cultured household, with musical evenings, improv... | Arnold Bennett | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Bennett needed a guide when he travelled abroad - and his Florentine Journal is touchingly full of his delightful eff... | Arnold Bennett | Karl Baedeker | [guidebook on Florence] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'They would talk French, eat in French restaurants, read French newspapers and visit the British Museum together.' | Arnold Bennett | | [French newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'From fine I turned to applied art, diverted by a periodical called The Girl's Own Paper. For a long period this month... | Arnold Bennett | | Girl's Own | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | [reminiscing about the Ugly Duckling, first story he remembers reading when he was 6 or so] 'When the ugly duckling at... | Arnold Bennett | Anon | Ugly Duckling | Print: Book |
| | 'The description of his [the character Darius Clayhanger in Clayhanger] labours as a child, and his days in the workho... | Arnold Bennett | William Shaw | When I was a child, recollections from an old potter | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Arnold Bennett's father] 'encouraged them to read. As soon as he had any money he began to buy books, and one of the ... | Arnold Bennett | unknown | various | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In these last years in the Five Towns, before he left for London, Bennet claims to have done little reading, apart fr... | Arnold Bennett | Ouida | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In these last years in the Five Towns, before he left for London, Bennet claims to have done little reading, apart fr... | Arnold Bennett | Emile Zola | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'he entered a competition held by Tit-Bits. The prize money was twenty guineas, and it was offered for a "humorous con... | Arnold Bennett | Grant Allen | What's bred in the bone | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bennett selected the things that interested him - notably novelists such as Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and his friend... | Arnold Bennett | Henry James | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bennett selected the things that interested him - notably novelists such as Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and his friend... | Arnold Bennett | Thomas Hardy | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bennett selected the things that interested him - notably novelists such as Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and his friend... | Arnold Bennett | George Paston | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bennett selected the things that interested him - notably novelists such as Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and his friend... | Arnold Bennett | H G Wells | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Six weeks since I received your letter! ... I have no great interest in the theory of our sacred art.' | Arnold Bennett | George Sturt | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'he claimed that he had not thought of using them [the Potteries] as fiction until he read another man's work of ficti... | Arnold Bennett | George Moore | A Mummer's Wife | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'A Mummer's Wife [title in italics] had impressed him very much with its power and its Staffordshire setting.' | Arnold Bennett | George Moore | A Mummer's Wife | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thanks for your letter & the book. A word in reference to the former.
I can?t boast that I discovered what purpo... | Arnold Bennett | Maurice Barres | Le Jardin de Berenice | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I first heard of Barr?s in an article by Edward Delille in the Fortnightly.'
| Arnold Bennett | Edward Delille | [article on Maurice Barres] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | '. I first heard of Barr?s in an article be Edward Delille in the Fortnightly. Next I read a criticism of this very ... | Arnold Bennett | Anatole France | La Vie Litteraire | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lastly there was a rather striking article in a recent Scribner on new ideas in French Literature generally in which ... | Arnold Bennett | | 'Scribner' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | '. . . I have just finished Guy de Maupassant?s Bel Ami. One of the most obviously truthful, British-matron-shocking,... | Arnold Bennett | Guy de Maupassant | Bel-Ami | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'What pleasure hast thou given me during the last few days! First your letter then your essay ?Fruit Blossom Time? & ... | Arnold Bennett | George Sturt | Fruit Blossom Time | Manuscript: Letter, Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | 'What pleasure hast thou given me during the last few days! First your letter then your essay "Fruit Blossom Time" & ... | Arnold Bennett | George Sturt | [unnamed novel] | Manuscript: Letter, Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | 'But happening to mention one day to my Editor that I thought "Occult" stories would go down well just now, & that I h... | Arnold Bennett | 'Par Un Initie' | Mysteres des Sciences Occultes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'But in the case of a story like yours, which is over the heads of the foolish, amiable readers of our "bright little ... | Arnold Bennett | George Sturt | A Courting Umbrella | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | 'You may know that Mrs Humphry Ward is one of my literary bugbears. I have never really read any of her much-lauded w... | Arnold Bennett | Mrs. Humphry Ward | The Story of Bessie Cottrell | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | "'Every Day?s News', the last Pseudonym, contains this passage:??Literature was to him passion & a torment. . . . the ... | Arnold Bennett | C.E. Francis | Every Day's News | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | '(I am tempted, by the way, to say that 'On the Eve' is the finest novel I have ever read. I must lend it you. Its s... | Arnold Bennett | Ivan Sergevich Turgenev | On the Eve | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have just read Marie Corelli?s new book?my first of hers. I can now understand both her popularity & the critics? ... | Arnold Bennett | Marie Corelli | Sorrows of Satan | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In my new vol. of the Edinburgh Stevenson, there is a luminous essay, reprinted for the first time from a Fortnightly... | Arnold Bennett | Robert Louis Stevenson | Some technical elements of style in literatue | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '. . . have you got Roget?s Thesaurus of English words and phrases? It is the most wonderful machine for getting at w... | Arnold Bennett | Dr Peter Mark Roget | Thesaurus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My favourite masters & models: 1. Turgenev, a royal first (you must read 'On the Eve'?flawless I tell you. Bring bac... | Arnold Bennett | Ivan Sergevich Turgenev | On the Eve | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My favourite masters & models: 1. Turgenev, a royal first (you must read 'On the Eve'?flawless I tell you. Bring bac... | Arnold Bennett | Guy de Maupassant | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '. . . I learnt this from the brothers de Goncourt. I must get you to read their 'Renee Mauperin'. To study the prin... | Arnold Bennett | Edmund and Jules de Goncourt | Renee Mauperin | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My favourite masters & models: 1. Turgenev, a royal first (you must read 'On the Eve'?flawless I tell you. Bring ba... | Arnold Bennett | George Moore | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My favourite masters & models: 1. Turgenev, a royal first (you must read 'On the Eve'?flawless I tell you. Bring bac... | Arnold Bennett | Robert Louis Stevenson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'You might, if you care, read my criticism of Hardy?s new novel in Wednesday next?s Woman ?though it contains little a... | Arnold Bennett | Thomas Hardy | Jude the Obscure | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My reviewing has been mixing me up with literary folk lately. One ?George Paston? (niece of John Addington Symonds) ... | Arnold Bennett | George Paston | A Modern Amazon, A Bread and Butter Miss, A Study in Prejudices | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I couldn?t get her [?George Paston?] to give George Moore a good word. I have just been reading his first novel.'
| Arnold Bennett | George Moore | A Modern Lover | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have just read Turgenev?s Smoke. Man, we have more to learn in mere technique from Turgenev than from any other so... | Arnold Bennett | Ivan Sergevich Turgenev | Smoke | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "'On the Eve' is more than a nice novel; it is a great novel. I think that if I could read it in Russian I should set... | Arnold Bennett | Ivan Sergevich Turgenev | On the Eve | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am just reading 'Germinie Lacerteux,' the masterpiece (I fancy) of the de Goncourts.'
| Arnold Bennett | Edmond and Jules de Goncourt | Germinie Lacerteux | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'What a lift for 'The Golden Age' in today?s Chronicle.' | Arnold Bennett | A.C. Swinburne | review of 'The Golden Age' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'For exercise I have just ridden over to Ken?s for your novel, though I am so busy I haven?t time to read it today. I... | Arnold Bennett | George Sturt | A Year's Exile | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Well, Sir, I have read your novel, & I am ready to bet a guinea to a gooseberry that, if read by Street, it will not ... | Arnold Bennett | George Sturt | A Year's Exile | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | 'He said, handing me a document, ?Here is the report on your novel.? I read it. It was very laudatory on all counts, ... | Arnold Bennett | John Buchan | Reader's report on an [unspecified] novel by Bennett | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Turgenev has forestalled you. & a bit to spare, in ?A Sportsman?s Sketches?, which you shall take home with you next ... | Arnold Bennett | Ivan Sergevich Turgenev | A Sportsman's Sketches | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Ever read Stendhal?s ?Physiologie de l?amour?? If not, do. 1 franc is the price. It is vivacious, epigrammatic, & ... | Arnold Bennett | Stendhal | De l'amour | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Certain events (which I will relate when I see you?may it be soon) at the office have given me an idea for another no... | Arnold Bennett | Edmond de Goncourt | Madame Gervaisais | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'P.S. I also return the voyage diary. It is excellent, & I was very pleased with it.' | Arnold Bennett | George Sturt | voyage diary | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | "I am now myself in cap III of 'Sentimental Tommy'. So far, it strikes me, as it struck me before in 'Scribner', as a... | Arnold Bennett | J.M. Barrie | Sentimental Tommy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Barrie?s 'Margaret Ogilvy', though a trifle loose in the mere writing, is a divine thing, my boy?sort of book that im... | Arnold Bennett | J.M. Barrie | Margaret Ogilvy/by her son | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Dear Mr Lane,
I must apologise for not returning 'King Noanett'. But I have been so awfully busy lately that I have... | Arnold Bennett | Frederic Jessup Stimson | King Noanett:A Story of Old Virginia and the Massachusetts Bay | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I wait only for one little incident to shape itself and then I can march on up to, & right through, my great revival ... | Arnold Bennett | Harold Frederic | Illumination, or, The damnation of Theron Ware | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have never (in his prose work) found a trace of the artist?s passion for words & loving care over them; & in his po... | Arnold Bennett | Rudyard Kipling | The Long Trail | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have Dupuy?s 'Les Grand Maitres de la literature russe', which strikes me as being platitudinous & not very informi... | Arnold Bennett | Ernest Dupuy | Les Grand Maitres de la litterature russe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have Dupuy?s 'Les Grand Maitres de la literature russe', which strikes me as being platitudinous & not very informi... | Arnold Bennett | Marie Eugene Melchior de Vogue | Le Roman russe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I saw Lane for a few brief moments last night. He showed me a second report on Bettesworth, by G.S. Street. It was ... | Arnold Bennett | G. S. Street | reader's report on "Bettesworth" | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'My sole solaces have been Dumas, & Nolan?s delightful companionship at Brussels.' | Arnold Bennett | Alexandre Dumas | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I feel conscious of sin in regard to your manuscripts. With reference to An Unequal Yoke I knew that Young was bitte... | Arnold Bennett | Mrs H. H. Penrose | The Unequal Yoke | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I feel conscious of sin in regard to your manuscripts. With reference to An Unequal Yoke I knew that Young was bitte... | Arnold Bennett | Mrs H. H. Penrose | Chubby, A Nuisance, A Study of Child-life | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'For a long time I have been intending to write to you, & express my appreciation of your work, & also to ask what is ... | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | The Time Machine | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'For a long time I have been intending to write to you, & express my appreciation of your work, & slso to ask what is ... | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | The Cone in 'The Plattner Story and Others' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'For a long time I have been intending to write to you, & express my appreciation of your work, & slso to ask what is ... | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | The Invisible Man | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am quite sure there is an aspect of these industrial districts which is really grandiose, full of dark splendours, ... | Arnold Bennett | William Edwards Tirebuck | Miss Grace of All Souls | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am quite sure there is an aspect of these industrial districts which is really grandiose, full of dark splendours, ... | Arnold Bennett | Henry Woodd Nevinson | In the Valley of Tophet | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Also to tell you that I have this morning read Kipling?s new book Captains Courageous, & that it is MAGNIFICENT.'
... | Arnold Bennett | Rudyard Kipling | Captains Courageous | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'With regard to your article, though admiring of the ingenuity of it, I yearned to tear the argument to rags. There i... | Arnold Bennett | George Sturt | A Note on Fiction | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'That Conrad book is magnificent.'
| Arnold Bennett | Joseph Conrad | The Nigger of the Narcissus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My Dear Wells, I owe you a good turn for pointing out Conrad to me. I remember I got his first book, Almayer?s Folly... | Arnold Bennett | Joseph Conrad | The Nigger of the Narcissus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have you read de Maupassant?s '?tude sur Gustave Flaubert', preface to Bouvard et P?cuchet?from which I quote above? ... | Arnold Bennett | Guy de Maupassant | Etude sur Gustave Flaubert | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Just now I am reading a most excellent & very English novel, 'Lying Prophets', by Eden Phillpotts. I have lately got... | Arnold Bennett | Eden Phillpotts | Lying Prophets | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I reckon I can do something with Moore. . . I occupy the time of waiting in reading G.M. & making notes. The busin... | Arnold Bennett | George Moore | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Of Dickens, dear friend, I know nothing. About a year ago, from idle curiosity, I picked up The Old Curiosity Shop, ... | Arnold Bennett | Charles Dickens | The Old Curiosity Shop | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I took up de Maupassant to inspire me into a new theme; got one in about 5 minutes, & in an hour had arrived at the d... | Arnold Bennett | Guy de Maupassant | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read 'A Year?s Exile' during the three hours? journey down here on Thursday afternoon, & have passed it on to Frank... | Arnold Bennett | George Sturt | A Year's Exile | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'You should get hold of Havelock Ellis?s new book Affirmations. It is all good; and there is an essay on Huysmans tha... | Arnold Bennett | Henry Havelock Ellis | Affirmations | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As the writer of the recent article upon you in the 'Academy' I venture upon the intrusion of telling you personally... | Arnold Bennett | Allan Noble Monkhouse | A Deliverance | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have you read Phillpotts? Children of the Mist? It is a great book.'
| Arnold Bennett | Eden Phillpotts | Children of the Mist | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At the moment I am in the act of discovering ?W.B. Yeats?, the Irish poet, whose prose, to my mind, is just about equ... | Arnold Bennett | W.B. Yeats | The Celtic Twilight | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am writing now because I must?to congratulate you on the short stories on the Pall Mall Magazine, which seem to imp... | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | A Story of the Days to Come | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have you read Housman?s poems A Shropshire Lad? They are only immortal, that?s all. I take them as a tonic.'
| Arnold Bennett | A. E. Housman | A Shropshire Lad | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have perused his [Eden Philpott's] agreeable verse in February Pall Mall Mag. I think that while Halkett has done ... | Arnold Bennett | Eden Phillpotts | unknown | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just been looking, with surprise & pleasure, at this week?s 'Woman'. It is really very good.' | Arnold Bennett | | Woman | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | ". . . you have helped to forward the sublime principles involved in the admirable chapter on the Parrot-woman in 'Th... | Arnold Bennett | G. B. Shaw | The Quintessence of Ibsenism | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . I am charmed with a serial of mine now running with great ?clat & Reginald Cleaver?s illustrations, in a sheet ... | Arnold Bennett | Arnold Bennett | | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'If you have not read "The Believing Bishop" by Havergall Bates (whoever he may be) [George Allen] let me recommend i... | Arnold Bennett | Havergall Bates | The Believing Bishop | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'This enclosed article is the third of yours that I have read. The first (about modelling) was about the most imperso... | Arnold Bennett | Thomas Lloyd Humbertstone | [article] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'I perceive you couldn?t keep your new house out of the "Fortnightly"! This third article is the best yet. I have ne... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | Anticipations | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have not even yet made up my mind about Dickens, & I am glad that so far I have never expressed an opinion about hi... | Arnold Bennett | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have not even yet made up my mind about Dickens, & I am glad that so far I have never expressed an opinion about hi... | Arnold Bennett | Charles Dickens | The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lately I have been reading Wordsworth with joy, for almost the first time. "Michael" quite overcame me by its perfec... | Arnold Bennett | William Wordsworth | 'Michael' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I note lately the evidence of an extraordinary activity on your part. Perhaps you have observed how difficult it is ... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | unknown | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I note lately the evidence of an extraordinary activity on your part. Perhaps you have observed how difficult it is ... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | unknown | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I think the article on Sir John Gorst is able & shows a sufficient grasp of the subject; the tone of it also seems to... | Arnold Bennett | Thomas Lloyd Humberstone | Coventry | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'I think the article on Sir John Gorst is able & shows a sufficient grasp of the subject; the tone of it also seems to... | Arnold Bennett | Thomas Lloyd Humberstone | article on Sir John Gorst | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read [The First Men on the Moon] in Strand, & hasten to insult & annoy you by stating that the last two instal... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | The First Men on the Moon | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I gather from a review that the conclusion of the book has not been printed in the Fortnightly?& this the most intere... | Arnold Bennett | unknown | Review of H.G. Wells' The First Men on the Moon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'With my London-Matric knowledge of German I have struggled through the appreciation of you in 'Die Zeit.' | Arnold Bennett | Fr Graz | in Die Zeit | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Have you read the fist Realistic Scotch Novel?The House with the Green Shutters? It is not first class but it is glo... | Arnold Bennett | George Douglas (pseud. of George Douglas Brown, 1869-1902) | The House with the Green Shutters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . I do not at the moment see how I can be of advantage to a Schoolmaster's Year Book. I think fancy articles are... | Arnold Bennett | | The Literary Year Book | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Just now I am reading nightly in bed Boswell?s "Life of Johnson". I suppose you know it by heart. Without doubt it ... | Arnold Bennett | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ''I am glad to be able to praise your article in this month?s Cornhill with less reserve than you praise my novel.' | Arnold Bennett | George Sturt | Some Peasant Women | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | "Many thanks for 'Mankind in the Making'. Like 'Anticipations' it is very wonderful, and very uneven." | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | Mankind in the Making | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When I landed at Newhaven a few days ago, the first printed thing that caught my eye was a newspaper placard: "Vice i... | Arnold Bennett | | Vice in the Potteries: Shocking Details | Print: newspaper placard |
| 1900-1945 | 'Just before leaving Paris I read the first instalment of "F. of G." in Pearson?s & thought it extremely good, barrin... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | The Food of the Gods | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do not think "Romance" is good. In fact it isn?t & I don?t care who knows it. Ever read Dostoevsky?s Crime and Pu... | Arnold Bennett | Joseph Conrad | Romance | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do not think "Romance" is good. In fact it isn?t & I don?t care who knows it. Ever read Dostoevsky?s "Crime and P... | Arnold Bennett | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Crime and Punishment | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'And that reminds me that your last Strand story was really admirable. A little faint towards the end I thought, but ... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | The Country of the Blind | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am disposed to agree with your own estimate of "Scepticism of the Instrument". I don?t, however, think that your t... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | Scepticism of the Instrument | |
| 1900-1945 | "I am disposed to agree with your own estimate of 'Scepticism of the Instrument'. I don?t, however, think that your t... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | Scepticism of the Instrument | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for the book. [A Modern Utopia.] If it was a novel I could say something useful about it, but as it isn?t... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | A Modern Utopia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The only real seizable fault that I can find in Kipps is the engagement to Helen, which entirely failed to convince m... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | Kipps | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . By the way your Westminster Gazette article was magnificent, & filled me with holy joy.' | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | 'The Schoolmaster and the Empire | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . now I see the announcement of your articles in the Tribune . . . ' | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | | Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Your Chicago article was very good.' | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | unknown | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . every evening after dinner he read "Whom God Hath Joined" . . . to Agnes and me. [Eleanor Green] I remember obj... | Arnold Bennett | Arnold Bennett | Whom God Hath Joined | Manuscript: or published book? |
| 1900-1945 | 'What price Bart Kennedy on America in the Daily Mail?' | Arnold Bennett | Bart Kennedy | America Revisited | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'And you never will persuade the people who don?t matter that the close of the 'Comet' is not profoundly immoral.' | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | In the Days of the Comet | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I feel that I can struggle on without Madame de Stael; but 'Adolphe' is an undiluted masterpiece.'
| Arnold Bennett | Benjamin Constant | Adolphe | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for your letter & the 2 numbers. I think the paper is very interesting.' | Arnold Bennett | | New Age | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The N.A. is not advocating immediately practical ideas. It is preparing opinion for ideas which will in future be pr... | Arnold Bennett | unknown | review of 'The Real India' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read Mr. Nevile Foster?s first article on The Universal Machine, which is chiefly a criticism of some of ... | Arnold Bennett | Nevile Foster | The Universal Machine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . for a month past I have been travelling in the South and have read no paper, almost, except the "D?peche de To... | Arnold Bennett | | Depeche de Toulouse | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading "1st & Last" which arrived a few days ago. As it isn?t a novel I can?t pontificate on it. However, whe... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | First and Last Things | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Orage has sent me your communication as to Frank Harris. Naturally I was the reviewer. Harris was much moved by the... | Arnold Bennett | Frank Harris | The Bomb | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wish I hadn?t read the first part of 'Tono-Bungay' so often. I shall have to read it yet again in order to get the... | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | Tono Bungay | Print: Book, proofs of novel |
| 1900-1945 | 'Dear Edward Garnett,
(For I suppose it is you who have written the very masterly review of my novel in the Nation.).... | Arnold Bennett | Edward Garnett | review of 'The Old Wives' Tale' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Do you know the prose of Wilfred Whitten? If not read pp. 229-30 of Mrs. Laurence Binyon?s Nineteenth Century Prose ... | Arnold Bennett | Mrs Laurence Binyon | Nineteenth Century Prose | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Your introductions to Turgenev?s novels were an event in my history?if that interests you.'
| Arnold Bennett | Edward Garnett | introductions to novels by Turgenev | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I made the mistake of reading your Shakespeare play before your Shakespeare criticism. So I had to read the play aga... | Arnold Bennett | Frank Harris | Shakespeare and his Love | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I made the mistake of reading your Shakespeare play before your Shakespeare criticism. So I had to read the play aga... | Arnold Bennett | Frank Harris | The Man Shakespeare | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I made the mistake of reading your Shakespeare play before your Shakespeare criticism. So I had to read the play aga... | Arnold Bennett | S.T. Coleridge | Shakesperian Criticism (?) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I got your book & letter this morning, & another letter on Friday. To my regret I have already swallowed the book, &... | Arnold Bennett | Frank Harris | Unpath'd Waters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Has it ever occurred to you what a fine story, really, "The Procurator of Judaea" might have been if Anatole France h... | Arnold Bennett | Anatole France | The Procurator of Judaea | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I violently disagree with you as to El?mir Bourges. I defy you to put your hand on your heart & say you have read th... | Arnold Bennett | El?mir Bourges | La Nef | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He [Frank Harris] has written a book drawing the character of Shakespeare from the plays. Part of it has been private... | Arnold Bennett | Frank Harris | The Man Shakespeare | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have also been making a study of "The Country House". You are one of the most cruel writers that ever wrote Englis... | Arnold Bennett | John Galsworthy | The Country House | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The receipt of your song gave me very great pleasure. I cannot criticize it. In fact it took me all my time to read... | Arnold Bennett | Cedric Sharpe | Song | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'There is only one trouble about the proofs. That is: the title is wrong. (This not your fault, but some copyist?s.)... | Arnold Bennett | Arnold Bennett | Helen with the High Hand | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1900-1945 | 'I don?t see how poetry can be "orchestral". I have only read a few things of Ren? Ghil?s. I am all for Verhaeren.' | Arnold Bennett | Ren Ghil | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I don?t see how poetry can be "orchestral". I have only read a few things of Ren? Ghil?s. I am all for Verhaeren.' | Arnold Bennett | Emile Verhaeren | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'And when you produced your really adorable notice of "What the Public Wants", I more than ever wanted to fall on you... | Arnold Bennett | | Westminster Gazette | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'There is nothing whatever of serious or permanent value in anything that Rostand ever wrote.' | Arnold Bennett | Edmund Rostand | unknown | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I must say the various editions of the M.G. are a deep mystery. Yesterday in the "London" edition, not a word (excep... | Arnold Bennett | | Manchester Guardian | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have already [read] The Song of Songs , and commented on it, a long time ago. As to the translation let me tell yo... | Arnold Bennett | Hermann Sudermann | The Song of Songs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The New M is a magnificent work.' | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | The New Machiavelli | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Hence I give myself the pleasure of writing to you in order to acknowledge your "Easy Chair" article in this month?s ... | Arnold Bennett | William Dean Howells | 'Easy Chair' column | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am particularly glad to have, from you, your new book, with its inscription. I thank you very much. For years I h... | Arnold Bennett | Andre Gide | Nouveaux Pr?textes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read your prodigious & all-embracing "Love?s Pilgrimage". I should very strongly resent its being censored in... | Arnold Bennett | Upton Sinclair | Love's Pilgrimage | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I anticipate that you will permit me to say a very few words about the article in your last issue criticizing the edi... | Arnold Bennett | | Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am obliged to you for the "Hortulus Anime". I have not had time to examine it carefully, but so far as I have seen... | Arnold Bennett | unknown | Hortulus Anime | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I send by parcel post two other jobs: One is "Roget?s Thesaurus". This is a book that I use every day, fairly rou... | Arnold Bennett | Dr Peter Mark Roget | Thesaurus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The only account that I have seen of the accident, in the "Figaro", is inaccurate in every detail except the number o... | Arnold Bennett | | Figaro | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for your letter and the book. I read the book at once, d?un trait. This is praise, I think! It reminds... | Arnold Bennett | Andr Gide | Isabelle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for your letter and the book. I read the book at once, d?un trait. This is praise, I think! It reminds... | Arnold Bennett | Eugene Fromentin | Dominique | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have got the plaquette of St. L?ger L?ger?s poems. Very interesting. The St. Catherine?s Press is terrible for mi... | Arnold Bennett | Alexis Saint-L?ger L?ger | Eloges | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "Je relis 'Tom Jones'. En effet, c'est ?patant". [I am re-reading "Tom Jones". In fact, it is astonishing']
| Arnold Bennett | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It may astonish you to learn that even thirty years ago?and more?"Harper?s" used to penetrate monthly into the savage... | Arnold Bennett | W.D. Howells | unknown | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'It may astonish you to learn that even thirty years ago?and more?"Harper?s" used to penetrate monthly into the savage... | Arnold Bennett | Russell Lowell | unknown | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'In reply to Mr. Archer?s letter, the authors? procedure, as regards the year 1860, was this. They practically read t... | Arnold Bennett | | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I return the proofs by registered bookpost. I have read them with care. I have of course confined my observations t... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | Marriage | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1900-1945 | 'By the way, Wells?s new novel 'Marriage', of which I have just read the proofs, contains more intimate conveyances of... | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | Marriage | Manuscript: Codex, proofs |
| 1900-1945 | 'I think you should like 'La Nouvelle Revue Francaise' (31 Rue Jacob, Paris. 1 fr 50c. monthly). The critical articl... | Arnold Bennett | | La Nouvelle Revue Francaise | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'A copy of the latest annual report of the Royal Literary Fund was recently forwarded to me from headquarters, and I h... | Arnold Bennett | | Royal Literary Fund annual report | Print: report |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been reading the singular article on myself, signed ?C.S.?, in your first issue.' | Arnold Bennett | Charles Sarolea | 'Everyman' magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of "La Maison Tellier" is the licensed brothel and its inmates'. | Arnold Bennett | Guy de Maupassant | La Maison Tellier | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read 'Higuerota' again not long since, I always think of that book as 'Higuerota', the said mountain being the pri... | Arnold Bennett | Joseph Conrad | Nostromo | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . when I recall the quiet domestic scenes behind the shop in 'The Secret Agent' here is rather the sort of thing ... | Arnold Bennett | Joseph Conrad | The Secret Agent | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . when I recall the quiet domestic scenes behind the shop in 'The Secret Agent' here is rather the sort of thing ... | Arnold Bennett | Joseph Conrad | Under Western Eyes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . when I recall the quiet domestic scenes behind the shop in 'The Secret Agent' here is rather the sort of thing ... | Arnold Bennett | Joseph Conrad | The Secret Sharer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Moreover I have been reading Meredith's letters - undoubtedly one of the masterpieces of English literature -especial... | Arnold Bennett | George Meredith | Letters vol 1 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I return the proofs. As before, all suggestions are tentative. . . .I should judge it to be rather better thatn Mar... | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | The Passionate Friends | Print: BookManuscript: Codex, proofs of book |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . I send you a book which I picked up as a bargain in the catalogue of a second-hand bookseller, You will see t... | Arnold Bennett | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was glad to see your hand, as it forced me to write to you. About 5 or 6 weeks ago I had the impulse to write to y... | Arnold Bennett | John Squire | The Three Hills | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I recommend to you Laurent Tailhade. (Such trifles as ?Place des Victoires? which I would give my head to have writt... | Arnold Bennett | Laurent Tailhade | Poemes aristophanesques | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'You shock me. Not by liking "The Way of all Flesh", but by liking "The Devil?s Garden" and "Fortitude" . . . . it ... | Arnold Bennett | Samuel Butler | The Way of all Flesh | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'You shock me. Not by liking "The Way of all Flesh", but by liking "The Devil?s Garden" and "Fortitude" . . . . it ... | Arnold Bennett | W.B. Maxwell | The Devil's Garden | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'You shock me. Not by liking "The Way of all Flesh", but by liking "The Devil?s Garden" and "Fortitude" . . . . it ... | Arnold Bennett | Hugh Walpole | Fortitude | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'You shock me. Not by liking "The Way of all Flesh", but by liking "The Devil?s Garden" and "Fortitude" . . . . it ... | Arnold Bennett | Hugh Walpole | Mr Perrin and Mr Traill | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'You have been looking for the wrong things in "The Passionate Friends", & failing to see the right things.' | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | The Passionate Friends | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like "The Dark Flower" very much, & wrote to tell Galsworthy so?a thing I have never done before about a book of hi... | Arnold Bennett | John Galsworthy | The Dark Flower | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It seems to me you had better read some good novels in which there is no slush nor tush. You might read "Bubu de Mont... | Arnold Bennett | C.L. Philippe | Bubu de Montparnasse | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It seems to me you had better read some good novels in which there is no slush nor tush. You might read "Bubu de Mont... | Arnold Bennett | J.H. Rosny | Dans les rues | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In your issue of August 29th, reviewing war literature, you say: "Almost without exception during the last fortnight... | Arnold Bennett | | The New Statesman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'As to applicants having received better treatment from Poor Law Guardians than from the Fund, My authority was a deta... | Arnold Bennett | | Manchester Guardian | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have nearly finished "Confession d?un homme d?aujourd?hui". It is very good and helped me to pass a difficult Sund... | Arnold Bennett | Abel Hermant | Confessions d'un homme d'aujourdhui | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'How soon are you going to use that contribution by my friend Miss Pauline Smith? I think that last week?s issue was ... | Arnold Bennett | | New Statesman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I think "The Genius" is a pretty good book.' | Arnold Bennett | Theodore Dreiser | The Genius | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for the inscribed D.F. ['The Dark Forest'] Overwork has delayed me much with it. I thought the opening r... | Arnold Bennett | Hugh Walpole | The Dark Forest | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you for sending me a copy of the United Methodist containing the article "Books and Bookmen", which deals with ... | Arnold Bennett | Charles Shaw | When I was a Child | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you for sending me a copy of the United Methodist containing the article "Books and Bookmen", which deals with ... | Arnold Bennett | | United Methodist | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the issue for December 23rd, 1915 of the NewYork "Nation" there is an extremely fine article on me by Stuart P. Sh... | Arnold Bennett | Stuart P. Sherman | [article on Arnold Bennett] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I don?t know whether the translation from the Russian, "The Golovleff Family", (published by Knopf out your way) is a... | Arnold Bennett | Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltuikov | The Golovleff Family | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like this book very much. ["Mr. Britling Sees It Through"] It is extremely original & sympathetic, & the scenes tha... | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | Mr Britling Sees It Through | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have at length had an opportunity to read "The Farm Servant". At first I thought it wasn?t going to be anything ve... | Arnold Bennett | E.H. Anstruther | The Farm Servant | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'And I have read Dreiser?s "The Financier", which I could never get hold of till the other day. This book, despite its... | Arnold Bennett | Theodore Dreiser | The Financier | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In your "Literary Notes and News" of Monday you state that George Smith paid
Browning ?12,500 for the first five yea... | Arnold Bennett | | 'Literary Notes and News' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'In your "Literary Notes and News" of Monday you state that George Smith paid
Browning ?12,500 for the first five yea... | Arnold Bennett | | Westminster Gazette | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Have you read Frank Harris?s privately published Life & Confessions of Oscar Wilde? It is a strange & powerful book,... | Arnold Bennett | Frank Harris | Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Have you read Frank Harris?s privately published Life & Confessions of Oscar Wilde? It is a strange & powerful book,... | Arnold Bennett | Anton Chekhov | The Tales of Tchehov | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I think MacGill has written one or two excellent things on the Push. [Patrick MacGill, The Great Push , 1916] I do ... | Arnold Bennett | Patrick MacGill | The Great Push | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'You ought to read "He looked in my Window" by Robert Halifax (publ. by Chatto & Windus). It is really remarkable.' | Arnold Bennett | Robert Halifax | He Looked in my Window | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A slight work, but just about perfect. In fact I do not know how to find fault with it. ["Nocturne", 1917] . . . An... | Arnold Bennett | Frank Swinnerton | Nocturne | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A slight work, but just about perfect. In fact I do not know how to find fault with it. ["Nocturne", 1917] . . . An... | Arnold Bennett | Emily Bronte | Wuthering Heights | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am extremely busy & my novel isn?t getting a fair chance. I solace myself with the "note books" of Samuel Butler.' | Arnold Bennett | Samuel Butler | Notebooks | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I forgot in my last letter to say that I found Beer’s book very good, certainly useful to me. [Clifford Beer, "A M... | Arnold Bennett | Clifford Beer | A Mind That Found Itself | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I understand from Mr. Bagguley that it is you who are the craftsman of the binding of the "Candide" which he has been... | Arnold Bennett | Voltaire | Candide | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I don’t think I have concealed from you my opinion that "Fortitude" and "The Duchess" [The Duchess of Wrexe] are n... | Arnold Bennett | Hugh Walpole | Fortitude | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I don’t think I have concealed from you my opinion that "Fortitude" and "The Duchess" [The Duchess of Wrexe] are n... | Arnold Bennett | Hugh Walpole | The Duchess of Wrexe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do not think that "Victory" is anything like equal to "Chance". In fact it is not first-rate Conrad, "Chance" is. ... | Arnold Bennett | Joseph Conrad | Victory | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do not think that "Victory" is anything like equal to "Chance". In fact it is not first-rate Conrad, "Chance" is. ... | Arnold Bennett | Joseph Conrad | Chance | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do not think that "Victory" is anything like equal to "Chance". In fact it is not first-rate Conrad, "Chance" is. ... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | Bealby | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Spender [J.A. Spender, editor of the Westminster Gazette] has recently introduced me to Thucydides & I think he is th... | Arnold Bennett | Thucydides | [Histories] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto... | Arnold Bennett | Gustave Flaubert | L'Education Sentimentale | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto... | Arnold Bennett | Gustave Flaubert | Un Coeur Simple | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto... | Arnold Bennett | Anatole France | La Rotisserie de la reine Pédauque | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto... | Arnold Bennett | Anatole France | Thais | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto... | Arnold Bennett | Charles Louis Philippe | Bubu de Montparnasse | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto... | Arnold Bennett | Lytton Strachey | Eminent Victorians | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The weather is damnable, especially when one has neither car nor taxi. I read ¼ of "Nicholas Nickleby" yesterday be... | Arnold Bennett | Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have pleasure in stating that Mr. T.S. Eliot (whom I understand to be a candidate for a commission in the Quarterma... | Arnold Bennett | T. S. Eliot | unknown | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Do you read the Sunday Times? It is a poor paper, but has great military articles by Spenser Wilkinson, one of the f... | Arnold Bennett | Spencer Wilkinson | Sunday Times articles | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Have you read Dolly Richardson’s "Backwater"? If not, do. It is a book.' | Arnold Bennett | Dorothy M. Richardson | Backwater | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'This is a very good number. The Wells review seems most just, but I haven’t yet finished the book. [The Soul of a... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | The Soul of a Bishop | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'This is a very good number. [The New Statesman]. The Wells review seems most just, but I haven’t yet finished the ... | Arnold Bennett | | The New Statesman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I should have read S.& H. [Shops and Houses] earlier, despite J. & P. , but I couldn’t get the book off Marguerite.... | Arnold Bennett | Frank Swinnerton | Shops and Houses | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I should have read S.& H. [Shops and Houses] earlier, despite J. & P. , but I couldn’t get the book off Marguerite.... | Arnold Bennett | Frank Swinnerton | On the Staircase | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Pardon my frankness. This is most distinctly an idea for a play. And you have put everything into it except the pla... | Arnold Bennett | E.V. Lucas | The Sane Star | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just seen (quoted in the National News) the following extract from "Gerald Cumberland’s" A Book of Reminisce... | Arnold Bennett | | National News | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'This is a very good number. [New Statesman] The Wells review seems most just, but I haven’t yet finished the book... | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | The Soul of a Bishop | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I should have read S.& H. ["Shops and Houses"] earlier, despite J. & P. , but I couldn’t get the book off Marguerit... | Arnold Bennett | Frank Swinnerton | Shops and Houses | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It appeareth to me that you have attempted the impossible in 'The Secret City'. Therefore be not surprised if I thin... | Arnold Bennett | Hugh Walpole | The Secret City | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading 'Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour'. Rather good.' | Arnold Bennett | R.S. Surtees | Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I return "The Moon and Sixpence" and your criticism. I agree with your criticism but I do not think that you have la... | Arnold Bennett | W. Somerset Maugham | The Moon and Sixpence | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I regret that you have given up the "New Statesman". The old editor has returned from the war & the paper is in its ... | Arnold Bennett | | New Statesman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | re: 'September'
'This work is admirably conceived and just about perfectly constructed . . .
It is incomparably t... | Arnold Bennett | Frank Swinnerton | September | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 |
'Have you read the 'New Statesman' this week? If not, read it. I take pride in the fact that I more than anybody ... | Arnold Bennett | | New Statesman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 |
'Speaking of the drama, you should read the preface to Shaw’s new book of plays. As a journalistic performance i... | Arnold Bennett | G. B. Shaw | Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, and Playlets About the War | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 |
'I have now perused the L.M.I. & will inflict my views on you. It is on the whole what I should call a "sound" numb... | Arnold Bennett | | London Mercury | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Moore’s 'Avowals' is highly agreeable.' | Arnold Bennett | George Moore | Avowals | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The more I read of H.G.’s 'Outline' the more staggered I am by it.' | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | The Outline of History | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'There is no particular talk in this house except the slump in theatres, & the general & increasing badness of the 'Lo... | Arnold Bennett | | London Mercury | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | ‘Wayfarer’ expresses the ignorance of himself and his friends about the late Charles Garvice . . . He brackets C... | Arnold Bennett | | Nation | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | ‘Wayfarer’ expresses the ignorance of himself and his friends about the late Charles Garvice . . . He brackets C... | Arnold Bennett | Charles Garvice | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ‘Wayfarer’ expresses the ignorance of himself and his friends about the late Charles Garvice . . . He brackets C... | Arnold Bennett | Florence Barclay | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . There have been 2 supreme books since your regretted departure. G. Moore’s 'Avowals' and the letters of Ch... | Arnold Bennett | George Moore | Avowals | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | . . . There have been 2 supreme books since your regretted departure. G. Moore’s 'Avowals' and the letters of Che... | Arnold Bennett | Anton Chekhov | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Byron was a great genius. 'Don' Juan is a terrific work. But there is scarcely a page of it which does not show tha... | Arnold Bennett | Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Byron was a great genius. 'Don' Juan is a terrific work. But there is scarcely a page of it which does not show tha... | Arnold Bennett | Sir Walter Scott | Quentin Durward | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Mary Berenson’s article on eighteenth century architecture in Spain most interestingly illustrates a principle ... | Arnold Bennett | Mary Berenson | [article on C18th architecture] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I enclose in this envelope a copy of the 'Economic Review of the Foreign Press'. . . . I know the periodical very w... | Arnold Bennett | | Economic Review of the Foreign Press | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Can’t something be done to buck up the 'Lit. Suppl'.? It is getting duller & duller, though it always contains 1 o... | Arnold Bennett | | Times Literary Supplement | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | I do not agree with you as to Gibbs’ book. . . . I have not yet seen a good war book. Doyle if course is ridiculo... | Arnold Bennett | Philip Gibbs | Realities of War | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do not agree with you as to Gibbs’ book. . . . I have not yet seen a good war book. Doyle if course is ridicul... | Arnold Bennett | Arthur Conan Doyle | The British Campaign in France and Flanders | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read 100 pages of 'L. Leuwen'. [Lucien Leuwen] It is exceedingly fine, but I don’t yet class it with 'La Ch... | Arnold Bennett | Henri Beyle [Stendhal] | Lucien Leuwen | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read 100 pages of 'L. Leuwen'. [Lucien Leuwen] It is exceedingly fine, but I don’t yet class it with 'La Ch... | Arnold Bennett | Henri Beyle [Stendhal] | La Chartreuse de Parme | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Have you read 'The Pretty Lady'? It was while reading 'Isabelle' that the form of this novel suddenly presented itse... | Arnold Bennett | André Gide | Isabelle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It seems to me that I have to write to you in the same nagging strain as I do to Wells, In spite of my brotherly adm... | Arnold Bennett | Hugh Walpole | The Captives | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'About 2/3rds of this play is undoubtedly very fine. I think it weakens in structure in the 3rd act. . . . I only me... | Arnold Bennett | Robert Nichols | Guillty Souls | Print: completed draft of play |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . and I wish to tell you that it was the first chapters of 'A Mummer’s Wife' which opened my eyes to the romant... | Arnold Bennett | George Moore | A Mummer's Wife | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Pardon my forwardness, but I must tell you I think that 'Streaks' is another what-I-call-a-book. In fact I should say... | Arnold Bennett | Ethel Smyth | Streaks of Life | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Pardon my forwardness, but I must tell you I think that 'Streaks' is another what-I-call-a-book. In fact I should say... | Arnold Bennett | Ethel Smyth | Impressions that Remained | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I am glad to see that today you give some figures to show what the coal strike is really about. The public seldom kno... | Arnold Bennett | | Express | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | I am glad to see that today you give some figures to show what the coal strike is really about. The public seldom kno... | Arnold Bennett | | Daily Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | It is 1,000 pities the 'Express' didn’t get the Wells Washington stuff. His first 3 articles in the 'Mail' have bee... | Arnold Bennett | | Daily Mail | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Your novel ['The Young Enchanted'] shows once more your most genuine and even devilish gift for narrative. By God yo... | Arnold Bennett | Hugh Walpole | The Young Enchanted | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have just borrowed a copy of 'Ulysses'. It appears to me to be jolly good, and it is certainly the most obscene gen... | Arnold Bennett | James Joyce | Ulysses | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Pontigny is not marked in the largest and best English atlas. But I had the wit to look for it in the 'Grand Larouss... | Arnold Bennett | | Grand Larousse | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have read 'Roasted Angels' and I now return it. It is a very unusual and even a very remarkable play. It is full ... | Arnold Bennett | H Hamer [anon] | Roasted Angels | |
| 1900-1945 | I have been re-reading 'Du Côté.' Well, it is marvellous. I have also been re-reading 'Anna Karenina'. Well, it i... | Arnold Bennett | Marcel Proust | Du Coté chez Swann | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have been re-reading 'Du Côté.' Well, it is marvellous. I have also been re-reading 'Anna Karenina'. Well, it i... | Arnold Bennett | Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have been re-reading 'Du Côté.' Well, it is marvellous. I have also been re-reading 'Anna Karenina'. Well, it i... | Arnold Bennett | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Les Freres Karamazov | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have not read 'La Garçonne'. I got about half way through it and then I had to give up, not because of its indecen... | Arnold Bennett | Victor Margueritte | La Garconne | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have not read 'La Garçonne'. I got about half way through it and then I had to give up, not because of its indecen... | Arnold Bennett | Paul Margueritte | Le Désastre | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wrote a fatherly letter to Hughie & told him the error of his ways & also that I didn’t like 'The Cath'. well eno... | Arnold Bennett | W.B. Maxwell | Spinster of this Parish | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I wrote a fatherly letter to Hughie & told him the error of his ways & also that I didn’t like 'The Cath'. well eno... | Arnold Bennett | Hugh Walpole | The Cathedral | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I wrote a fatherly letter to Hughie & told him the error of his ways & also that I didn’t like 'The Cath'. well eno... | Arnold Bennett | | Notable British Trials | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 |
Many thanks for the book on Methuselahs. ['Some Impressions of my Elders']Shame to say, I’ve only read myself in... | Arnold Bennett | Arnold Bennett | Some Impressions of my Elders | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I am obliged for your letter and the enclosures. I return all the latter, together with my report and adjudication. ... | Arnold Bennett | Geoffrey Lapage | Tommy Fidler | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | I am obliged for your letter and the enclosures. I return all the latter, together with my report and adjudication. ... | Arnold Bennett | Geoffrey Bullough | From Bondage | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | I am obliged for your letter and the enclosures. I return all the latter, together with my report and adjudication. ... | Arnold Bennett | Kate Simmonds | The Best Policy | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | .. . . I have no prejudice against the young, rather the reverse, and yet I am looking in vain for a really good novel... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | Men Like Gods | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Pardon a word of unsolicited criticism about your venture. I think the contents are pretty creditable, but I think th... | Arnold Bennett | | Adelphi | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | The Lawrence is magnificent. Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase. It irrit... | Arnold Bennett | D.H. Lawrence | Trees and Babies and Papas and Mamas | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | The Lawrence is magnificent. Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase. It irrit... | Arnold Bennett | H.M. Tomlinson | The Estuary | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | The Lawrence is magnificent. Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase. It irrit... | Arnold Bennett | H.M. Tomlinson | The Estuary | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | The Lawrence is magnificent. Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase. It irrit... | Arnold Bennett | Katherine Mansfield | The Samuel Josephs | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | The Lawrence is magnificent. Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase. It irrit... | Arnold Bennett | | Mr Joiner and the Bible | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | I have a wonderful miniature edition of Byron’s 'Don Juan', illustrated, for you, with a staggering Victorian prefa... | Arnold Bennett | Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | It is not an article at all. [‘Adrien van de Venne’ in Studies (Dublin), June 1923] It is a romance, a drama, an... | Arnold Bennett | Thomas Bodkin | Adrien van de Venne | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | I’ll tell you what I think of ‘Golgotha’. I think it is a prodigious cataract of eloquence, managed with astoni... | Arnold Bennett | Robert Nichols | Golgotha & Co. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I’ll tell you what I think of ‘Golgotha’. I think it is a prodigious cataract of eloquence, managed with astoni... | Arnold Bennett | Aldous Huxley | On the Margin | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Your book on Dostoevsky (for which many thanks) has made a very considerable impression upon me. And yet you say almo... | Arnold Bennett | André Gide | Dostoevsky | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | After reading what you said about 'The Eternal Husband', I read that story again. Je le trouve un peu manqué, surtou... | Arnold Bennett | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | The Eternal Husband | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I will strive to let you have a note about André Maurois’s 'Ariel ou la vie de Shelley'. It is a very bright thing. | Arnold Bennett | André Maurois | Ariel: ou la vie de Shelley | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Now as regards the 'N.R.F'., am I unjust? All I know is that under Copeau, I panted monthly for the 'N.R.F'. Under Ri... | Arnold Bennett | | La Nouvelle Revue Francaise | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Now as regards the 'N.R.F'., am I unjust? All I know is that under Copeau, I panted monthly for the 'N.R.F'. Under Ri... | Arnold Bennett | Marcel Jouhandeau | Clodomir l'assassin | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'We have just had a new edition of the works of Hale White (Mark Rutherford). It is a miserable and ill-printed editi... | Arnold Bennett | Mark Rutherford | The Novels of Mark Rutherford | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | My objection to the policy of the 'Express' of late is that I can’t understand it—nor have I met anyone else who ... | Arnold Bennett | | Express | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | On your recommendation I have just bought 'The Dance of Life' and am reading it. It repayeth perusal, & I thank thee... | Arnold Bennett | Havelock Ellis | The Dance of Life | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I cannot understand the small sale of 'Felix' ['Young Felix'] in this bloody country.' | Arnold Bennett | Frank Swinnerton | Young Felix | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I want you to tell R.M. du Gard how highly I esteem 'Barois'. When I first bought it, ages ago, I was so impressed b... | Arnold Bennett | Roger Martin du Gard | Jean Barois | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I want you to tell R.M. du Gard how highly I esteem 'Barois'. When I first bought it, ages ago, I was so impressed b... | Arnold Bennett | Valery Larbaud | Amants, heureux amants | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I ought to have written to you before about 'Amants, heureux amants', which you were so kind as to send me. It is,... | Arnold Bennett | Valery Larbaud | Amants, heureux amants | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I ought to have written to you before about 'Amants, heureux amants', which you were so kind as to send me. It is,... | Arnold Bennett | James Joyce | Ulysses | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have a collection of 8 short stories of hers, [Pauline Smith] all, in my opinion, fine. Middleton Murry would hav... | Arnold Bennett | Pauline Smith | The Little Karoo | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | I have a collection of 8 short stories of hers, [Pauline Smith] all, in my opinion, fine. Middleton Murry would hav... | Arnold Bennett | Pauline Smith | The Beadle | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | I offer you my sincere & almost violent congratulations on 'C'. I have been greatly impressed by it. It held me thr... | Arnold Bennett | Maurice Baring | C | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have now read 'Tunnel Trench'. The copy which you kindly gave me got lost—I don’t know how, but I obtained ano... | Arnold Bennett | Hubert Griffith | Tunnel Trench | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for so kindly sending me your book. Of course I read the essay on myself when it appeared in the Mercury... | Arnold Bennett | J.B. Priestley | Figures in Modern Literature | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Many thanks for so kindly sending me your book. Of course I read the essay on myself when it appeared in the 'Mercur... | Arnold Bennett | J.B. Priestley | | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | I think the 'C.N.' is fine. It is bound to make you respected among those whose respect alone is a comfort in moments... | Arnold Bennett | Margaret Kennedy | The Constant Nymph | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I venture to write a very few words about your book on me. It has given me great pleasure. . . . The book is incomp... | Arnold Bennett | L.G. Johnson | Arnold Bennett of the Five Towns | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I venture to write a very few words about your book on me. It has given me great pleasure. . . . The book is incomp... | Arnold Bennett | Frederick Joseph Harvey Darton | Arnold Bennett | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I do not know sufficient about Villiers de l’Isle Adam to advise you. His best known book is 'L’Eve Future'. I h... | Arnold Bennett | Philippe-August Villiers de L'Isle Adam | L'Eve Future | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I do not know sufficient about Villiers de l’Isle Adam to advise you. His best known book is 'L’Eve Future'. I h... | Arnold Bennett | Philippe-August Villiers de L'Isle Adam | L'Eve Future | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I do not know sufficient about Villiers de l’Isle Adam to advise you. His best known book is 'L’Eve Future'. I h... | Arnold Bennett | Philippe-August Villiers de L'Isle Adam | Contes Cruels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I do not know sufficient about Villiers de l’Isle Adam to advise you. His best known book is 'L’Eve Future'. I h... | Arnold Bennett | Philippe-August Villiers de L'Isle Adam | Nouveaux Contes Cruels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Now my sweet Francis I have read your book in this Alpine district. . . . There is not, really, much fault to be fou... | Arnold Bennett | Francis Hackett | That Nice Young Couple | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I enclose 2 brief notes about your 2 stories. There is not the slightest doubt in my mind that you can produce excell... | Arnold Bennett | Edward Knoblock | stories [unidentified] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | I noticed strangely few misprints in 'C.A.’s Pa'. though I had my malicious eye open for them. | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | Christina Alberta's Father | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I return the typescript of your book. ['Politicians and the Press'] You asked me to tell you whether I thought it was... | Arnold Bennett | Max Beaverbrook | Politicians and the Press | Manuscript: typescript |
| 1900-1945 | I have new books by Maurice Baring, Sylvia Lynd, and W Gerhardi lying unread and they are all coming to dinner on the ... | Arnold Bennett | | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I’ve finished Baring’s 'Cat’s Cradle'. 770 large pages. Well, it isn’t so bad, though highly curious in tech... | Arnold Bennett | Maurice Baring | Cat's Cradle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I’ve finished Baring’s 'Cat’s Cradle'. 770 large pages. Well, it isn’t so bad, though highly curious in tech... | Arnold Bennett | Stendhal | Promenades dans Rome | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I read C.C. ['Cat's Cradle'] very carefully in a fortnight: about 50 pp. a day. It held me all right, though not quit... | Arnold Bennett | Maurice Baring | Cat's Cradle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have now read 'Mr Moffat'. If the author is very young I regard it as a pretty sound book. Fundamentally true throu... | Arnold Bennett | Chester Francis Cobb | Mr Moffat | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thanks for your letter & 'The Polyglots'. I regret not to be able to agree with you as to the latter. I have read i... | Arnold Bennett | William Gerhardi | The Polyglots | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Barrès is all right sometimes. The 'Jardin de Bérénice' is his best work. You ought to read Charles Louis Philipp... | Arnold Bennett | Maurice Barres | Jardin de Bérénice | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Barrès is all right sometimes. The 'Jardin de Bérénice' is his best work. You ought to read Charles Louis Philipp... | Arnold Bennett | Charles Louis Philippe | Bubu de Montparnasse | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Barrès is all right sometimes. The 'Jardin de Bérénice' is his best work. You ought to read Charles Louis Philipp... | Arnold Bennett | Roger Martin du Gard | Jean Barois | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Barrès is all right sometimes. The 'Jardin de Bérénice' is his best work. You ought to read Charles Louis Philipp... | Arnold Bennett | Colette | Chéri | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Barrès is all right sometimes. The 'Jardin de Bérénice' is his best work. You ought to read Charles Louis Philipp... | Arnold Bennett | Anna Dostoevsky | Dostoevsky portrayed by his wife(?) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have finished my novel . . . This is largely due to the exercises in 'The Culture of the Abdomen'. They are marve... | Arnold Bennett | F.A. Hornibrook | The Culture of the Abdomen | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have finished my novel . . . This is largely due to the exercises in 'The Culture of the Abdomen'. They are marve... | Arnold Bennett | | Eat and Grow Thin: The Mahdah Menus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I’ve read 200 pp of 'Clissold'. Formless & wordy, I agree (introductory note foolish); but so far I think the book... | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | The World of William Clissold | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I’ve read 200 pp of 'Clissold'. Formless & wordy, I agree (introductory note foolish); but so far I think the book... | Arnold Bennett | John Galsworthy | The Silver Spoon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have never thought very well of Bunin. I say this with the greatest respect for your opinion, and I admit that you ... | Arnold Bennett | Ivan Alexeyevich Bunin | The Gentleman from San Francisco | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have never thought very well of Bunin. I say this with the greatest respect for your opinion, and I admit that you ... | Arnold Bennett | Ivan Alexeyevich Bunin | The Village | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Be not vexed that I have only just read 'Akhnaton'. Of late months I have had so much in the way of absolutely impera... | Arnold Bennett | Adelaide Philpotts | Akhnaton | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have just written an introduction to a posthumous work of George Sturt’s (who generally wrote under the name of Ge... | Arnold Bennett | George Sturt | A Small Boy in the Sixties | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I received your book some time ago, from the publishers. My life is made terrible by my 'Evening Standard' article. ... | Arnold Bennett | Louis Golding | Day of Atonement | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have read your novel, and as you were kind enough to send it to me, I hope you will not mind me giving my opinion of... | Arnold Bennett | J.B. Priestley | Benighted | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have read your novel, and as you were kind enough to send it to me, I hope you will not mind me giving my opinion of... | Arnold Bennett | J.B. Priestley | Adam in Moonshine | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I told Forster that I was prepared to stand absolutely for both the merits and the decency of the book.' [The Well o... | Arnold Bennett | Radclyffe Hall | The Well of Loneliness | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thoroughgood’s notice of Wells’s book was deplorable. ['Mr Blettsworthy on Rampole Island']. For one thing the ... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I am told that in a book of Sir Chartres Biron there is a passage against book censorship. Can you give me the refere... | Arnold Bennett | Chartres Biron | Pious Opinions | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | On the conclusion of the 'Well of Loneliness' case, I propose to devote an article to it in the Evening Standard. I ... | Arnold Bennett | Radclyffe Hall | The Well of Loneliness | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have read 'To the Pure', in the American edition, and I brought it into an article for the Standard which I wrote an... | Arnold Bennett | Chartres Biron | To the Pure | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have read a lot of 'The Vatican Swindle' and also 'The School of Women'.
I see in the course of a year a larg... | Arnold Bennett | André Gide | The Vatican Swindle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have read a lot of 'The Vatican Swindle' and also 'The School of Women'.
I see in the course of a year a larg... | Arnold Bennett | André Gide | The School of Women | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I wish I could write short novels like your completely admirable 'L’Ecole des Femmes'. But I can’t. | Arnold Bennett | André Gide | L'Ecole des Femmes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thank you for your appreciative letter. I am glad to have it. I did not say that 'A High Wind' would be the best boo... | Arnold Bennett | Richard Hughes | A High Wind in Jamaica | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thank you for your appreciative letter. I am glad to have it. I did not say that 'A High Wind' would be the best boo... | Arnold Bennett | John Cowper Powys | Wolf Solent | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Reading Berlioz’s 'Soirées de L’Orchestre' the other day I found that an opera on the Aztec subject was actually ... | Arnold Bennett | Hector Berlioz | Soirées de l'Orchestre | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I am returning your Memoirs.
Technically they have practically no faults, except those of the typist. A few slips h... | Arnold Bennett | William Rothenstein | Men and Memoirs | Manuscript: typescript |
| 1900-1945 | I have now read your story. I return it herewith. I think that it is very well done. | Arnold Bennett | James Hanley | ?A Passion before Death | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and mysel... | Arnold Bennett | Herman Melville | Moby Dick | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and mysel... | Arnold Bennett | Herman Melville | The Piazza Tales | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and mysel... | Arnold Bennett | Herman Melville | Pierre: or the Ambiguities | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and mysel... | Arnold Bennett | Herman Melville | Typee | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and mysel... | Arnold Bennett | Herman Melville | Omoo | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and mysel... | Arnold Bennett | George Meredith | Evan Harrington | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and mysel... | Arnold Bennett | George Meredith | Beauchamp's Career | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and mysel... | Arnold Bennett | Thomas Hardy | The Mayor of Casterbridge | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | A very fine book indeed, recently published, is Siegfried Sassoon’s 'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer'. I thought th... | Arnold Bennett | Siegfried Sassoon | Memoirs of an Infantry Officer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In the main, the reviews of I.P. [Imperial Palace] have been excellent. But it is curious that 2 out of 3 of Max’s... | Arnold Bennett | | Sunday Express | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | In the main, the reviews of I.P. [Imperial Palace] have been excellent. But it is curious that 2 out of 3 of Max’... | Arnold Bennett | Bruce Lockhart | Evening Standard | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | In the main, the reviews of I.P. [Imperial Palace] have been excellent. But it is curious that 2 out of 3 of Max’s... | Arnold Bennett | | Times Literary Supplement | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | In the main, the reviews of I.P. [Imperial Palace] have been excellent. But it is curious that 2 out of 3 of Max’s... | Arnold Bennett | W. Somerset Maugham | Cakes and Ale | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In the main, the reviews of I.P. [Imperial Palace] have been excellent. But it is curious that 2 out of 3 of Max’s... | Arnold Bennett | D.H. Lawrence | The Virgin and the Gypsy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | When you have read 'The Virgin and the Gipsy' you might get the volume of stories called 'The Woman who Rode Away' and... | Arnold Bennett | D.H. Lawrence | The Virgin and the Gypsy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | When you have read 'The Virgin and the Gipsy' you might get the volume of stories called 'The Woman who Rode Away' and... | Arnold Bennett | D.H. Lawrence | The Virgin and the Gypsy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | When you have read 'The Virgin and the Gipsy' you might get the volume of stories called 'The Woman who Rode Away' and... | Arnold Bennett | D.H. Lawrence | The Woman who Rode Away | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | When you have read 'The Virgin and the Gipsy' you might get the volume of stories called 'The Woman who Rode Away' and... | Arnold Bennett | Siegfried Sassoon | The Memoirs of an Infantry Officer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | When you have read 'The Virgin and the Gipsy' you might get the volume of stories called 'The Woman who Rode Away' and... | Arnold Bennett | Siegfried Sassoon | The Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | When you have read 'The Virgin and the Gipsy' you might get the volume of stories called 'The Woman who Rode Away' and... | Arnold Bennett | D.H. Lawrence | The Rainbow | Print: Book |