Anna of the Five Towns

By Arnold Bennett, Frank Swinnerton

Subjects: Women, Femmes, England, fiction, England -- Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (England) -- Fiction, England, Vie urbaine, Fathers and daughters, Fiction, historical, Fiction, historical, general, Manners and customs, Romans, nouvelles, England -- Staffordshire, Pottery industry -- Fiction, Materialism, Fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Social life and customs, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Stoke-on-Trent (England) -- Fiction, Women -- England -- Fiction, English literature, City and town life, Pottery industry, Matérialisme, City and town life -- Fiction

Description: Set in the Potteries, the region in which Bennett spent much of his youth, this is the story of a miser's daughter who inherits a fortune. She stands out as a spirited, complex modern woman in a stifling and repressive society.