We still have places available for our annual Arnold Bennett Day on 6th June.

Thanks to Helen Burton and Keele Archives for a most enjoyable and informative afternoon.

19th January 1917 “Mair [journalist on Daily Chronicle] promised to take me over London in airship”

10th Jan 1929 review a biography of Balzac "one of the most romantic figures in the history of fiction" . He created new characters as easily as Dickens, and far more completely".

8th Jan, 1918 I have read 100 or so pages of Hammond’s “Town Labourer”. There is undoubtedly a pleasure in reading recitals of horrible injustice and tyranny

Arnold Bennett's Journal 1st January 1918 'Much work on the novel these last two days. I wrote 2,600 words yesterday'. He was writing 'The Old Wive's Tale'.

Message from Jonathan Taylor Lovely afternoon at the Arnold Bennett Society Christmas Literary Lunch today. Thank you to all the wonderful members, to the Society, for inviting me, and of course to the brilliant Lisa Blower. Such an enjoyable occasion. (Photos Paul Ruane)

SATURDAY 6TH DECEMBER 2025. FREE EVENT AT DUDSON MUSEUM. THE CAFE WILL BE OPEN FROM 1PM FOR TEA/COFFEE. FILM STARTS AT 2PM.

Places still available for our annual Literary Lunch on 3rd December at The Upper House, Barlaston. For more details and how to book, email [email protected]

Our thanks to Deborah McAndrew for a most informative and interesting Zoom talk last night on The production of The Grand Babylon Hotel. If you have not had a chance to see The Grand Babylon Hotel, fear not, you will get a chance when it starts a country tour on 27th February.

This Saturday, The Dudson Centre, Hope Street, Hanley. Cafe open at 1pm, film starts at 2pm. Parking on site or Sampson Street.

This Saturday at the Dudson Centre (Hope Street ST1 5DD)..

Three Heritage walks completed, two more to go. Dudson Museum 2pm, 24th Sept and 2pm, 1st October. From Hope Street, to Potteries Museum. Green Door Guide. Last about one hour. Book via ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on?… or just turn up. See you then.

The Arnold Bennett Society is privileged to support and promote the much anticipated production of The Grand Babylon Hotel and wish every success with its run commencing tonight. Ray Johnson, Chair Carol Gorton, Secretary

London's BFI Southbank (aka the National Film Theatre) is running an Anna May Wong season, so of course there are showings of Piccadilly, 'one of the silent era’s most captivating films', with a scenario by Arnold Bennett whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/de…

Autumn discussion on The Old Wives Tale and Marriage Material. Booking details: [email protected]

Five FREE guided walks ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on?…

Arnold Bennett's 'artistic advantage' over Virginia Woolf; our author's fondness for heaving bosoms; @sathnam's Marriage Material on stage ... All this and more in the Society's latest newsletter, newly arrived in members' mailboxes