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Clayhanger family (Fictitious characters)FictionBritish and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
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This is the fourth, often neglected, book of the 'Clayhanger Series', and concerns the young life of Clayhanger's stepson, George. George Edwin Cannon (he quickly dropped the surname Clayhanger), is an architect, in many ways representing the ambitions held by his stepfather, Edwin. However, he possesses an arrogance endowed by family wealth and Bennett examines with some aplomb the difficulty of bringing up children without spoiling them. It is a riveting tale which eventually sees George in the army and a fitting finale to one of the finest series in English literature. - Publisher.
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Clayhanger family (Fictitious characters)FictionBritish and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
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Arnold Bennett
27 May 1867 – 27 March 1931
Enoch Arnold Bennett was an English novelist, playwright, and journalist, whose novels and plays generally reflected middle-class life in north Staffordshire. He was born in Hanley, Staffordshire (which is now Stoke-on-Trent), the son of a solicitor. He was educated in Newcastle-under-Lyme. After school, he worked for his father, and in his spare time he was a journalist. At age twenty-one, he moved to London to work as a solicitor's clerk. In 1889 he won a writing competition in *Tit-Bits* magazine and decided to become a full-time journalist. In 1894, he became assistant editor of the periodical *Woman*, for which he also began writing serial fiction. His first novel, *A Man from the North…
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