Male : Novelist & Dramatist. 1902 moved to France, married a Frenchwoman, Marguerite Soulie in 1907. Returned to live in England 1908 and lived with Dorothy Cheston for the rest of his life.

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Nr Hanley, Staffordshire

Date of Birth : 1867 Date of Death : 1931 Age : 64

Other Work : Journalist (Editor of "Woman" in 1896)

Education : Burslem Endowed School & Newcastle-under-Lyme

1898-1900
A Man from the North (1898 John Lane) - by E A Bennett
Journalism for Women : A Practical Guide (1898 John Lane, The BH)
Polite Farces for the Drawing Room (1900 Lamley & Co, London)

1901-1905
Fame and Fiction (1901)
Anna of the Five Towns (1902 Chatto & Windus)
[The five towns being Tunstall, Hanley, Burslem, Stoke & Longton, although in Bennett's novels
they were called - Turnhill, Hanbridge, Bursley, Knype & Longshaw]
The Grand Babylon Hotel (1902 C & W)
The Gates of Wrath (1903 C & W)
How to Become an Author: A Practical Guide (1903 C Arthur Pearson)
The Truth About an Author (1903 Constable)
Leonora (1903 C & W)
A Great Man (1904 C & W)
The Loot of Cities (1904) - ss
Teresa of Watling Street (1904 C & W)
Sacred and Profane Love : A Novel in Three Episodes (1905 C & W)
Tales of the Five Towns (1905 Chatto & Windus)

1906-1910
Hugo (1906 C & W)
The Sinews of War (1906 T Werner Laurie) - with Eden Philpotts
Whom God Hath Joined (1906 David Nutt)
The Grim Smile of the Five Towns (1907 Chapman & Hall)
The City of Pleasure (1907 C & W)
The Ghost : A Fantasia on Modern Times (1907 C & W)
The Reasonable Life (1907)
The Human Machine (1908 New Age Press)
How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day (1908)
The Grim Smile of the Five Towns (1908 C & W)
Buried Alive (1908 Chapman & Hall)
[Filmed in 1943 as "Holy Matrimony"]
The Old Wives' Tale (1908 C & H)
The Statue (1908 Cassell) - with Eden Philpotts
Cupid and Commonsense (1909 New Age Press)
What the Public Wants (1909 Duckworth)
The Glimpse : an Adventure of the Soul (1909 C & H)
Literary Taste : How to Form it (1909 New Age Press)
Clayhanger (1910 Methuen) (1910 Dutton, NY)
Helen with the High Hand (1910 C & H)

1911-1915
The Card : A Story of Adventure in the Five Towns (1911 Methuen)
[Filmed in 1952]
Hilda Lessways (1911 Methuen)
[First printing of 10.000 copies]
The Honeymoon : A Comedy in Three Acts (1911 Methuen)
The Feast of St Friend (1911 Hodder & Stoughton) - slipcase
Those United States (1912 Secker)
Milestones (1912 Methuen) - with Edward Knoblauch
The Matador of the Five Towns & other Stories (1912 Methuen)
Mental Efficiency (1912)
Marriage : the Plain Man and His Wife (1913 H & S)
The Regent : A Five Towns Story of Adventure in London (1913 Methuen)
The Great Adventure : a Play of Fancy in Four Acts (1913 Methuen)
Paris Nights & Other Impressions of Places & People (1913 H & S) (1913 Doran, NY)
- E A Rickards
Liberty : A Statement of the British Case (1914 H & S)
The Price of Love (1914 Methuen) (1914 Harper)
The Author's Craft (1914 H & S)
Over There (1915)
These Twain (1915 Doran) (1916 Methuen)

1916-1920
The Lion's Share (1916 Cassell)
Books and Persons : Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 (1917) (1917 Doran NY)
Self and Self-Management : Essays about Existing (1918 H & S)
The Pretty Lady : A Novel (1918 Cassell)
The Roll Call (1918 Hutchinson)
The Title : A Comedy in 3 Acts (1918 C & W)
Judith : A Play in Three Acts (1919 Chatto & Windus)
Sacred and Profane Love : a Play in Four Acts (1919 C & W)
Our Women : Chapters on the Sex Discord (1920 Cassell)
The Art of E A Rickards (1920 Technical Journals, London) - et al
From the Log of the 'Velsa' (1920 Chatto & Windus) - 110 signed

1921-1925
Things that have Intersted Me (1921,1923 & 1926) - 3 series
Lilian (1922 Cassell)
Mr Prohack (1922 Methuen)
[Filmed in 1949 as "Dear mr Prohack"]
The Love Match (1922 C & W)
Body and Soul (1922 C & W)
How to Make the Best of Life (nd.1923 Hodder & Stoughton)
Don Juan de Marana : A Play in 4 Acts (1923 T Werner Laurie) + 1000 signed
Riceyman Steps : A Novel (1923 Cassell)
The Bright Island (1924 Golden Cockerel Press) - 200 signed
London Life (1924 C & W) - with Edward Knoblauch
Elsie and the Child : A Tale of Riceyman Steps & other Stories (1924 Cassell)
The Clayhanger Family (1925 Methuen) - 200 signed. 1st combined Edition

1926-1930
Lord Raingo (1926 Cassell) (1926 Doran, NY)
The Woman who Stole Everything & Other Stories (1927 Cassell)
The Old Wive's Tale : Reproduced in facsimile from Author's MS (1927 Benn) - 2 vols. 500
The Saviour of Life : Essays in Gusto (1928 Cassell)
Mediterranean Scenes : Rome, Freece & Constantinople (1928 Cassell) - 1000
The Strange Vanguard : a Fantasia (1929 Cassell)
Piccadilly (1929 Readers Library Publishing Co)
Journal 1929 (1929 Cassell) - 75 signed
Accident (1929 Cassell)
Elsie and the Child (1929 Cassell) - 750. E McKnight Kauffer
Imperial Palace (1930 Cassell) - 2 vols. 100 signed

AFTER 1931
The Night Visitor & other Stories (1931 Cassell)
Venus Rising From the Sea (1932 Cassell) - 350 signed. E McKnight Kauffer
Offered in 1999 for £250
Dream of Destiny : An Unfinished Novel & Venus Rising from the Sea (1932 Cassell)
Journals 1896-1928 (1932-3 Cassell) - Ed Newman Flower. 3 vols
Flora (1933 Rich & Cowan)
The Snake Charmer (1933)
Letters to His Nephew (1936 Heinemann)
The Old Wives' Tale (1941 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by John Austen. 2 vols
The Old Wives' Tale (1941 OUP for the Ltd Eds Club, Oxford) - 2 vols. John Austen
Tales of the Five Towns (1964 C & W) - first collected edition of the Five Towns stories.
Clarke Hutton
The Collected Letters (ed by James Hepburn) (1966-86 OUP) - 4 vols
Florentine Journal 1st April - 25th May (1967 C & W) - intro by Sacheverell Sitwell. 1503 copies

READING
Reginald Pound : Arnold Bennett - A Biography (1952 Heinemann)
Norman Emery : Arnold Bennett - A Bibliography (1967 Stoke Central Library)
Margaret Drabble : Arnold Bennett (1974 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
(Ed) James Hepburn : Arnold Bennett - Sketches for Autobiography (1979 Allen & Unwin)