"The Grim Smile of the Five Towns The Grim Smile of the Five Towns is the second major collection of stories written by Arnold Bennett. The book first appeared in print in June 1907. Only around half of the stories had previously appeared in print. Bennett anticipated that the collection would help to establish his stature as a writer, showing that he could rise above what he termed his ""potboilers"". But the book had some initial sharp criticism from press reviewers. Critics focussed especially on the macabre story ""In a New Bottle"" (the ""Staffordshire Sentinel"" called it ""nasty"" and ""The"
"Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) is the novelist of the Potteries in Staffordshire, or the ""Five Towns"", (actually six) that now make-up Stoke-on-Trent. Similarly, novelist and poet Walter Scott's (1771-1832) contribution in creating a unified identity for Scotland and were some of the most popular in all of Europe during the subsequent century. Scott's novels were influential in recreating a Scottish identity that the upper-class British society could embrace. In American fiction, the concept of American literary regionalism ensures that many genres of novel associated with particular regions often define the reception of the novelists. For example, in writing Western novels, Zane"
"of the Five Towns"", the first of Bennett's novels about life in the Staffordshire Potteries, appeared in 1902. ""The Clayhanger Family"" and ""The Old Wives' Tale"" also draw on experience of life in the Potteries, as did several of his other novels. In all of them the Potteries are referred to as ""the Five Towns"" because Bennett felt that the name was more euphonious than ""the Six Towns"" and omitted Fenton. The real towns and their fictional counterparts are: The name ""Knype"" may have been taken from the village of Knypersley near Biddulph, and/or Knypersley Hall. Oldcastle, where Edwin Clayhanger"
"is particularly associated with the rural English Midlands, whereas Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) is the novelist of the Potteries in Staffordshire, or the ""Five Towns"", (actually six) that now make-up Stoke-on-Trent. R. D. Blackmore (1825–1900), was one of the most famous English novelists of the second half of the nineteenth century, and he shared with Thomas Hardy a Western England background and a strong sense of regional setting in his works. Noted for his eye for and sympathy with nature, critics of the time described this as one of the most striking features of his writings. He may be said to"
"Arnold Bennett Enoch Arnold Bennett (27 May 1867 – 27 March 1931) was an English writer. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as the theatre, journalism, propaganda and films. Bennett was born in a modest house in Hanley in the Potteries district of Staffordshire. Hanley was one of the Six Towns that were joined together at the beginning of the 20th century as Stoke-on-Trent and are depicted as ""the Five Towns"" in some of Bennett's novels. Enoch Bennett, his father, qualified as a solicitor in 1876, and the family moved to"
"Chronicles of Barsetshire The Chronicles of Barsetshire is a series of six novels by the English author Anthony Trollope, set in the fictitious English county of Barsetshire and its cathedral town of Barchester. The novels concern the dealings of the clergy and the gentry, and the political, amatory, and social manœuvrings that go on among and between them. Of the six novels, the second in the series, ""Barchester Towers"", is generally the best known, while the last was Trollope's own favourite. Together, the series is regarded by many as Trollope's finest work. The novels in the series are: Nathaniel Hawthorne"
"autobiography he wrote ""I found... the strange landscape of the Five Towns with its blazing iron foundries, its steaming canals, its clay-whitened pot-banks and the marvellous effects of its dust and smoke-laden atmosphere, very stimulating..."" ""...at Etruria my real writing began..."" There he began the early drafts of what would become his famous ""The Time Machine"" (1895). He planned a vast melodrama set in the Five Towns, but the only section known to survive is the macabre short story ""The Cone"". Basford, Staffordshire Basford is a suburb which sits on high ground between Newcastle-under-Lyme and Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, England. The"
"as well as films that have finished their run in larger cinemas. Through the works of Arnold Bennett, described by some as the greatest realist writer of the 20th century, the ""Six Towns"" were sometimes known as the ""Five Towns"". In his novels, Bennett wrote about local events in the 19th century and consistently changed all proper names and associations, thus Hanley became Hanbridge and Burslem became Bursley. It is thought that Bennett chose to write about five towns, rather than six, because he refused to acknowledge Fenton as a proper town. The ""Six Towns"" were not federated until 1910"
"the southernmost end of the Pennines and is bounded by the lowlands of the Midlands to the south. For Eurostat purposes it is a NUTS 3 region (code UKG23) and is one of four counties or unitary districts that compose the ""Shropshire and Staffordshire"" NUTS 2 region. Stoke-on-Trent is often known as ""the city of five towns"", because of the name given to it by local novelist Arnold Bennett and is the only polycentric city in the UK. In his novels, Bennett used mostly recognisable aliases for five of the six towns (although he called Stoke ""Knype""). However, Bennett said"
"The Five Red Herrings The Five Red Herrings (also The 5 Red Herrings) is a 1931 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, her sixth featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. In the United States it was published in the same year under the title ""Suspicious Characters"". The novel includes a foreword in the form of a personal letter from the author ""To my friend Joe Dignam, kindliest of landlords"". The letter starts ""Here at last is your book about Gatehouse and Kirkcudbright. All the places are real places and all the trains are real trains, and all the landscapes are correct, except that"
"North Yorkshire town of Whitby. The first three novels are ""Death's Disciple"", ""The Eve of Murder"" and ""Bidding to Die"". The fourth title Better the Devil You Know was published in May 2015. A fifth novel, Murder on the Record, was published in May 2017. Whitworth is an Associate Lecturer in Journalism at the University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, Derby University, Leeds Trinity, and Huddersfield. He teaches Public Affairs to NCTJ apprentices. James Whitworth James Whitworth is a nationally syndicated cartoonist and writer. His daily news cartoons appear in papers across the UK from Scotland to the south of"
"The Town (Richter novel) The Town (1950) is a novel written by American author Conrad Richter. It is the third installment of his trilogy The Awakening Land. ""The Trees"" (1940) and ""The Fields"" (1946) were the earlier portions of the series. ""The Town"" was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1951. In September 1966, his publisher Alfred A. Knopf reissued the trilogy for the first time as a single hardcover volume. According to the edition notice of this all-in-one version—which lists the original publication dates of the three books -- ""The Town"" was first published on 24 April 1950."
"The Famous Five failing to go on a cycling trip. So Uncle Quentin sends them to a farm in Cornwall. However, on the way there,they pass a mysterious hole on another street. Eventually they reach their destination, where they meet Mr Penruthlan, the farm’s owner. The gamebook ""The Wreckers’ Tower Game"" (1983) was based on this novel. Five Go Down to the Sea Five Go Down To The Sea is the twelfth novel in The Famous Five series by Enid Blyton. It was first published in 1953. In this novel, The Famous Five decide to spend their time at a"
"Five Live. Brownlee himself has appeared as a reviewer on the show on several occasions in 2009. In April 2010, US magazine Booklist included the book in its list of Best Crime Novels of the Year. Set in Newcastle and featuring investigations carried out by a small team of detectives under the watchful eye of Detective Superintendent Theo Vos, the ""Bug House"" series (the name derives from the office where the detectives are based) was purchased by Constable Robinson in 2013 and published as three ebook novellas throughout 2014. For this series, Brownlee wrote under the pen name Jim Ford."
"killed during the Battle of the Thames. In tribute to this war hero, a monument stands across from the field where the battle occurred. Thamesville is also the birthplace of famous Canadian author Robertson Davies who wrote the Deptford Trilogy of novels (""Fifth Business"", ""The Manticore"", and ""World of Wonders""), in which Thamesville is fictionalized as the town of Deptford, Ontario. Bulldog Steel Wool is manufactured in Thamesville. Thamesville Thamesville is a community in Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada. It is located at the junction of former provincial Highways 2 and 21, between Chatham and London. Its name comes from the Thames"
"the neighboring villages of Lynbrook and Valley Stream (North Woodmere and Gibson in particular). Although Lawrence was planned to be the location for Five Towns College, the original site was no longer available by the time the school received its charter in 1972. The college is currently located in Dix Hills, Suffolk County. Other than the proposed original site, the school never had a physical connection to the Five Towns. Notable current and former residents of the Five Towns include: Five Towns The Five Towns is an informal grouping of villages and hamlets in Nassau County, United States on the"
"Fenton, Staffordshire Fenton is one of the so-called ""Six Towns"" which constitute the City of Stoke-on-Trent, which federated in 1910. Located in the south-eastern area of the City, Fenton is often referred to as ""The Forgotten Town"", because it was omitted by local author, Arnold Bennett (1867-1931), from one of his most famous novels, ""Anna of the Five Towns"" (1902). The name Fenton means 'fen farm'. Fenton started to become populated as a group of farms and private small-holdings were built there, alongside a lane running from the southern reaches of Hanley (by 1933 this lane was very busy and"
"Borges short story ""The Garden of Forking Paths"", Dr. Yu Tsun goes to a suburb of Fenton to meet Stephen Albert. Fenton, Staffordshire Fenton is one of the so-called ""Six Towns"" which constitute the City of Stoke-on-Trent, which federated in 1910. Located in the south-eastern area of the City, Fenton is often referred to as ""The Forgotten Town"", because it was omitted by local author, Arnold Bennett (1867-1931), from one of his most famous novels, ""Anna of the Five Towns"" (1902). The name Fenton means 'fen farm'. Fenton started to become populated as a group of farms and private small-holdings"
"best-loved works are set in the imaginary west country county of Barsetshire, including ""The Warden"" (1855) and ""Barchester Towers"" (1857). Trollope's novels portray the lives of the landowning and professional classes of early Victorian England. George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans (1819–80) was a major novelist of the mid-Victorian period. Her works, especially ""Middlemarch"" 1871-2), are important examples of literary realism, and are admired for their combination of high Victorian literary detail, with an intellectual breadth that removes them from the narrow geographic confines they often depict, that has led to comparisons with Tolstoy. George Meredith (1828–1909) is best remembered for"
"""Five Towns"" but many residents consider it as such because the entire area is served by the Five Towns' two local high schools. The ""towns"" most commonly included as constituents of the ""Five Towns"" are all in the southwest corner of the Town of Hempstead. The name ""Five Towns"" dates back to 1931, when individual Community Chest groups in the area banded together to form the ""Five Towns Community Chest"", consisting of Inwood, Lawrence, Cedarhurst, Woodmere, and Hewlett. The organization still exists (as of 2018) as a local charity, but the ""Five Towns"" moniker caught on as a designation for"
"two surviving plays written in any of Britain's vernacular tongues that take a saint's life as their subject. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch author of many novels and works of literary criticism lived in Fowey: his novels are mainly set in Cornwall. Prolific writer Colin Wilson, best known for his debut work ""The Outsider"" (1956) and for ""The Mind Parasites"" (1967), lives in Gorran Haven, a village on the southern Cornish coast, not far from Mevagissey. A. L. Rowse, the historian and poet, was born near St Austell. Thomas Hardy's drama ""The Queen of Cornwall"" (1923) is a version of the Tristan"
"landscape. ""The Cone"" was included in the collection of Wells short stories ""The Plattner Story and Others"", published by Methuen & Co. in 1897. It was reprinted in ""The Country of the Blind and Other Stories"", a collection of short stories by Wells published by Thomas Nelson & Sons in 1911. The Cone ""The Cone"" is a short story by H. G. Wells, first published in 1895 in ""Unicorn"". It was intended to be ""the opening chapter of a sensational novel set in the Five Towns"", later abandoned. The story is set at an ironworks in Stoke-on-Trent, in Staffordshire. An"
"and ""Whence Came a Prince"". Richard Hannay flees London to lie low in Galloway in John Buchan's novel ""The Thirty-nine Steps"". ""Five Red Herrings"", a whodunit by Dorothy L. Sayers, initially published in the US as ""Suspicious Characters"", sees Lord Peter Wimsey, on holiday in Kirkcudbright, investigating the death of an artist living at Gatehouse of Fleet; the book contains some remarkable descriptions of the countryside. S R Crockett, a bestselling writer of historical romances active before the First World War, set several novels in the region including ""The Raiders"" and ""Silver Sand"". Galloway Galloway (, ) is a region"
"New Towns"". The former Park Prewett Mental Hospital was the setting for the novel ""Poison in the Shade"" (1953), by Eric Benfield, a local author and sculptor who worked as an art therapist at that hospital. a. Population figure is an estimate for 2010, and includes only the unparished area, not the surrounding area. b. The List of generic forms in British place names shows a toponymic interpretation of the various Old English elements within the names Basing and Basingstoke. ""Bas"" is taken to be from the personal name 'Basa', ""ingas"" as 'people of' and ""stoc"" as 'dependent farmstead' or"
"been called ""slipstream"" fiction in the 21st century. ""Fifth Business"" is narrated by Dunstable (later Dunstan) Ramsay, who grows up in Deptford, a fictional town in southwestern Ontario, Canada. After World War I, he becomes a teacher and serves for decades at a college. The epistolary novel takes the form of a letter Ramsay writes to the headmaster of Colborne College after his retirement. He feels ill used by an article about him in the school paper. He recalls how, as a boy, he ducked a snowball intended for him. It hit a pregnant woman instead, and she gave birth"
"the Galaxy"" while he lived in Stalbridge; John le Carré, author of espionage novels, was born in Poole; Tom Sharpe of ""Wilt"" fame lived in Bridport; John Fowles (""The French Lieutenant's Woman"") lived in Lyme Regis before he died in late 2005; T.F. Powys lived in Chaldon Herring for over 20 years and used it as inspiration for the fictitious village of Folly Down in his novel ""Mr. Weston's Good Wine""; John Cowper Powys, his elder brother, also set a number of his works in Dorset, such as the novels ""Maiden Castle"" and ""Weymouth Sands"". The 19th-century poet William Barnes"
"after a lecture for (largely unappreciative) schoolchildren: The five novels in the Bannerdale series are: No Boats on Bannermere No Boats on Bannermere is a 1949 children's novel by Geoffrey Trease, and the first of his five Bannerdale novels. They are school stories set in Cumberland, in the Lake District. William Melbury and his younger sister Susan (Sue) live with their widowed mother in the south of England, in furnished rooms. His mother inherits a cottage from her second cousin; but only if she lives in it for five years. Cousin Fay disliked ""week-enders"" and wanted Beckfoot Cottage to be"
"as one of the ""Five Towns,"" with the other four being Woodmere, Cedarhurst, Lawrence, and Inwood, along with Woodsburgh. The fictional ""Five Towns"" series is produced by actor/screenwriter/producer Ed Burns (who plays himself on ""Entourage""), who grew up in the Hewlett area and attended Hewlett High School. On the episode aired on April 13 it was said that the village of Hewlett Harbor was the setting of the fictional NBC TV series called ""Five Towns"". Notable current and former residents of Hewlett Harbor include: Hewlett Harbor, New York Hewlett Harbor is a village in Nassau County, New York in the"
"works are set in the imaginary county of Barsetshire, including ""The Warden"" (1855) and ""Barchester Towers"" (1857). He also wrote perceptive novels on political, social, and gender issues, and on other topical matters, including ""The Way with Live Now"" (1875). Trollope's novels portrayed the lives of the landowning and professional classes of early Victorian England. George Eliot's (Mary Ann Evans (1819–80) first novel ""Adam Bede"" was published in 1859. Her works, especially ""Middlemarch"" 1871–72), are important examples of literary realism, and are admired for their combination of high Victorian literary detail combined with an intellectual breadth that removes them from"
"puts forth as the actual truth (though ""Five Weeks"" is far more successful, assuming there is any attempt at accuracy with ""Journey""). The party of three characters is similarly divided into the Doctor, the doubtful companion who initially balks at the journey, and the servant who is quite able. In both novels, Purdey rifles are referenced. In both novels, there is an episode of despair characterized by thirst. Five Weeks in a Balloon Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen () is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1863. It is"
"in the course of the trilogy. Owen Robinson has noted the contrast in the narrative style and tone between ""The Hamlet"" and ""The Town"". Thomas H Rogers commented critically, in his contemporary review of the novel, in his comparison between the literary merits of ""The Hamlet"" and ""The Town"". Peter Swiggart has noted that the events and style in ""The Town"" reflect Faulkner's attempts to create a more realistic social milieu compared to his other works. The Town (Faulkner novel) The Town is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1957, about the fictional Snopes family of"
"the Devil's Foot"" featuring Sherlock Holmes is set in Cornwall. Winston Graham's series ""Poldark"", Kate Tremayne's Adam Loveday series, Susan Cooper's novels ""Over Sea, Under Stone"" and ""Greenwitch"", and Mary Wesley's ""The Camomile Lawn"" are all set in Cornwall. Writing under the pseudonym of Alexander Kent, Douglas Reeman sets parts of his Richard Bolitho and Adam Bolitho series in the Cornwall of the late 18th and the early 19th centuries, particularly in Falmouth. Hammond Innes's novel, ""The Killer Mine""; Charles de Lint's novel ""The Little Country""; and Chapters 24 and 25 of J. K. Rowling's ""Harry Potter and the Deathly"
"on the way to a new and better life. In ""Tin Town"" the main character, a small girl Molly cannot understand why she has to move to America with her mother. Molly wants to be back home with her sister Susan, Susan’s husband Clarkie and Grandmother, and she recalls the last years spent in the house on the farm in their small English village. Amanda Hodgkinson Amanda Hodgkinson (born 25 October 1965, Somerset, England) is a British novelist. Hodgkinson’s debut novel ""22 Britannia Road"" was a bestseller in the United States and the Netherlands, and won multiple awards including the"