Talk:Arnold Bennett

message: It doesn't give her name or anything about the marriage. Valetude (talk) 10:15, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: In the 1970s there was a book of their correspondence, Arnold Bennett In Love. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Arnold-Bennett-love-Marguerite-correspondence/dp/0851270085 However, a biographical dictionary website says: "Bennett lived in France from 1902 to 1913. Shortly after his fortieth birthday he married Marguerite Soulié. The couple seemed happy but within a few years proved incompatible." https://biography.yourdictionary.com/arnold-bennett Marguerite, according to Britannica and other sources, was a French actress who had grown up in circumstances more comfortable than those of Bennett's youth. They married in 1907. If you research Bennett a bit you can find, for instance, Google Books results from out-of-print books, or extracts from Bennett's journals online (I don't have time at the moment to hunt all this up again), which show that even by about 1911 they were apart for much of the time. Bennett was in fact in London a good deal, contrary to the impression given by the article at present. He was often at the Reform Club, where he was on good cigar-smoking and chatting terms with Henry James in the Smoking Room after lunch. He eventually took a sort of bachelor flat, I think on Piccadilly, so he could spend more time in London. He wanted to keep Marguerite out of his London life. This annoyed her because she would have liked to move in that sort of society, but she was quite haughty and demanding and he felt she would just upset his friends and make him uninvitable. Khamba Tendal (talk) 17:33, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  First wife? 

message: Nice article - as expected. Well put together and in excellent shape. A couple of very minor tweaks made, and a few comments below:
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* "despite their enormous popularity": I tripped slightly on this, wondering if the modernist school were the popular ones
:*Whoops! Attended to. Glad you spotted this. Tim riley talk
* "His finest novels": looks a bit POV-ish
:*I think the main text justifies this, with suitable citations. Tim riley talk 19:37, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: *True. Redrawn. Tim riley talk 19:37, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

text: *She does – Green was an all-round bad lot – but it seems to me that her irresponsible behaviour over the wedding and her quick switch to another fiancé are reason enough in themselves. Tim riley talk 19:37, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

text: *Indeed. Done. Tim riley talk 19:37, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

text: *I quite agree. Would it be too cheeky of me to ask if you would kindly do the honours? Tim riley talk 19:37, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

text: Excellent! Thank you for these pointers. I'll enjoy working through them. Tim riley talk 17:44, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: , thank you for those points: replies above, plus gratuitous importuning. Tim riley talk 19:37, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Pip pip - SchroCat (talk) 20:01, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you very much. Tim riley talk 20:10, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: hi this article says he was born in 1867 and qulatified as a solicitor in 1876 - he would have  been 9 years old?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.23.32.204 (talk) 11:27, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: If you read the article again you will see that the son was born in 1867 and the father qualified as a solicitor in 1876. Tim riley talk 17:58, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Age of qualifying as a solicitor 

message: *  online 
* 0mtwb9gd5wx (talk) 22:24, 17 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Bookman (London)