Bursley

(METHUEN), and finds herself landed with one of Mr. ARNOLD BENNETT'S intimate little guides to "Bursley" and the four other drab towns.

Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 21, 1914 Various

a town such as Bursley starred with such a woman as Mrs. Daniel

The Old Wives' Tale Arnold Bennett 1899

The years pass on -- Mr. Bennett's transitions make us imagine forlorn, almost intolerable passages of years in which the human soul trudges stupidly and wearily towards death, discussing muffins and tea whilst the Cosmos is plotting upheavals for the sole benefit of stupidity in the mass -- and Edwin, suffering at his father's hands, triumphing over him in old age, is becoming an ordinary inhabitant of Bursley, working, resting, taking his ease.

Personality in Literature Rolfe Arnold Scott-James

They have a natural place in the Five Towns; their ambition does not stretch out beyond the finite limits of Bursley unless it be to the mild ecstasies of conventional religion or the generous aspiration which accompanies song.

Personality in Literature Rolfe Arnold Scott-James

Bursley is every provincial town, his Baineses are all townspeople whatsoever under the sun.

When Winter Comes to Main Street Grant Martin Overton 1908

Ten years ago on a Thursday afternoon in July, Lionel Woolley, as he walked up through the new park at Bursley to his celibate rooms in Park

Tales of the Five Towns Arnold Bennett 1899

'I was going to Bursley to-night to buy me a pair o' boots, and when I was at top o 'th' hill I remembered as I'd forgotten the measure o 'my feet.

Tales of the Five Towns Arnold Bennett 1899

Clive Timmis, partner in a small but prosperous firm of majolica manufacturers at Bursley.

Tales of the Five Towns Arnold Bennett 1899

Bursley was hurt, and logic is no balm for wounds.

Tales of the Five Towns Arnold Bennett 1899

As he lingered at the shop door for the Bursley car to pass the end of

Tales of the Five Towns Arnold Bennett 1899