Hilda Lessways (Clayhanger, 2)

ISBN: 0755115937

Author: Bennett, Arnold

Condition: Used

About the Author Enoch Arnold Bennett, the son of a solicitor, was born in Hanley, which is in the Potteries district of Staffordshire.  He was initially employed by his father, a solicitor, and at age twenty-one moved to London, initially to again work as a solicitors clerk. However, he soon turned to writing popular serial fiction and editing a womens magazine. After publication of many articles and stories in serial form, his first novel A Man From the North was published in 1898. This novel was received with critical acclaim and Bennett became a full-time professional writer and moved to Paris where he became a man of cosmopolitan and discerning tastes. During the First World War, Arnold Bennett became director of propaganda for France at the Ministry of Information at the behest of Lord Beaverbrook, whose experiences during the First World War were to later inspire Bennett to write the novel Lord Raingo. At the end of the war, he was offered a knighthood, but refused it. Product Description In the second volume of the trilogy, events in Clayhanger are retold from the perspective of Hilda Lessways, who is embarking upon a relationship with George Cannon, a charismatic entrepreneur, whose success has taken him from the Five Towns to Brighton. A disastrous bigamous marriage and pregnancy result. Finally, however, she is reconciled with Edwin Clayhanger and one of Bennetts most living heroines must face up to her conflicting emotions, and the reality of her hopes and tragedies.