Enoch Arnold Bennett, born on May 27, 1867, in Hanley, Staffordshire, was an English novelist and dramatist, renowned for his perceptive and poignant portrayals of life in the industrial Midlands of England. Bennett's major literary contribution is the 'Five Towns' series, an affectionate and incisive chronicle of life in the Pottery manufactures of North Staffordshire, which he termed the 'Five T...