The Grand Babylon Hôtel

Enoch Arnold Bennett, an illustrious English novelist, was born on May 27, 1867, in Hanley, Staffordshire, which is part of the industrial region known as the Potteries, and today forms part of Stoke-on-Trent. Bennett's upbringing in this working-class milieu deeply influenced his writing, instilling in him a strong sense of the socio-economic forces shaping the lives of his characters. Bennett's ...