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The Iconoclast
Thursday, 1 May 2008
Not the Mothers of Invention
but some inventions for a wife and mother.
by Esmerelda Weatherwax


Things I wish they would invent. Whoever “they” are.

I have just re-read Arnold Bennett’s Anna of the Five Towns. In a more cheerful mood he also wrote The Card, which made a rather good film staring Alec Guinness. It is set in the same towns (The Potteries) at the same time, and with several of the same characters mentioned, but in a different atmosphere and mood. more..
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2 May 2008
Alex

Dear Esmerelda

Yes, `The Card` is  tremendous fun, isn`t it? I am thousands of kilometers away from my copy, but trust it is still in my parental home. Good old Denry! Its a book that deserves to be better known. Why is Bennet so unpopular now? And Trollope too, almost forgotten, yet the far inferior Dickens lives on and on and on.... 
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