Clayhanger

I first saw her as Hilda Lessways in the 1976 BBC adaptation of Arnold Bennett's Potteries-set series of novels called Clayhanger.

The Saturday interview: Janet Suzman 2011

ARNOLD BENNETT, author of many popular realistic studies of English provincial life, including "Clayhanger" and "Hilda Lessways."

New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index Various

"Clayhanger" is exhaustive; he gives us both types of the new movement in perfection.

An Englishman Looks at the World 1906

His superb "Old Wives 'Tale," wandering from person to person and from scene to scene, is by far the finest "long novel" that has been written in English in the English fashion in this generation, and now in "Clayhanger" and its promised collaterals, he undertakes that complete, minute, abundant presentation of the growth and modification of one or two individual minds, which is the essential characteristic of the Continental movement towards the novel of amplitude.

An Englishman Looks at the World 1906

Kipps undoubtedly wore glasses; so did Bunker Bean; so did Mr. Polly, Clayhanger, Bibbs, Sheridan, and a score of others.

A Wodehouse Miscellany and Psmith Finals | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2008

In England the rapid social changes involved in the passage from the nineteenth to the twentieth century produced such father-and-son masterpieces as Clayhanger and The Diary of a Nobody, which have a richness of texture impossible in our time when fathers have no more memory of religious and social tradition than sons have.

The Way of Some Flesh Wain, John 1967

_Clayhanger_ has two such persons -- Edwin, and Darius his father, as well as a dozen or more of interesting subordinate characters.

Personality in Literature Rolfe Arnold Scott-James

We remember Clayhanger living in the printing shop in the

Personality in Literature Rolfe Arnold Scott-James

It is interesting to turn from _Clayhanger_ to the story of _Hilda

Personality in Literature Rolfe Arnold Scott-James

Potteries; his uncouthness, his shyness, his pertinacity; his desire to be an architect and to live the imaginative life, thwarted by his grim old father; and the manner in which Hilda dawned upon him, entered into his experience in a brief rapture of passion, and disappeared, leaving Clayhanger to grope again with the commonplaces.

Personality in Literature Rolfe Arnold Scott-James