Anna of the Five Towns
Arnold Bennett
Subjects: Women -- England -- Fiction, Staffordshire (England) -- Fiction, City and town life -- Fiction, Pottery industry -- Fiction, Stoke-on-Trent (England) -- Fiction, PR, I
Downloads: 548
Subjects: Women -- England -- Fiction, Staffordshire (England) -- Fiction, City and town life -- Fiction, Pottery industry -- Fiction, Stoke-on-Trent (England) -- Fiction, PR, I
Downloads: 548
In Anna of the Five Towns (1902) Arnold Bennett depicts the severe economic and moral pressures of life in the Potteries in the late nineteenth century, as they affect the emotional fortunes of his heroine. When Anna Tellwright comes of age, she learns from her miserly father that she is rich, and discovers for herself that she is loved by two men: popular, charismatic, and successful Henry Mynors, and awkward Willie Price. The novel presents her resistance to her father against the background of pottery manufacture and the repressive regime of Methodism.
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