Anna of the Five Towns

a novel

About this book

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.

Subjects

  • american fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • city and town life
  • city and town life -- fiction
  • england
  • england, fiction
  • england -- staffordshire
  • england -- stoke-on-trent
  • english fiction
  • english literature
  • fathers and daughters
  • femmes
  • fiction
  • fiction, historical
  • fiction, historical, general
  • manners and customs
  • materialism
  • matérialisme
  • pottery industry
  • pottery industry -- fiction
  • romans, nouvelles
  • social life and customs
  • staffordshire (england) -- fiction
  • stoke-on-trent (england) -- fiction
  • vie urbaine
  • women
  • women -- england -- fiction