Anna of the Five Towns
Author: Arnold Bennett
1902. Anna of the Five Towns depicts the severe economic and moral pressures of life in the Staffordshire Potteries in the late nineteenth century. Against the vitality and harshness of the Five Towns, Bennett’s narrative is a compelling delineation of his heroine’s attempts to gain freedom and independence from her father and the repressive regime of Methodism. This is th….Read More
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