Anna of the Five Towns (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- First Published: 1902
- Type of Work: Novella
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: Late nineteenth century
- Setting: The Potteries, England
- Principal Characters: Ephraim Tellwright, Anna, Agnes, Henry Mynors, Willie Price, Beatrice Sutton
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Values, Nineteenth century, Religion, Rural or country life, England or English people, Inheritance or succession, Greed, Money
- Locales: England, Potteries, England
The Story:
Ephraim Tellwright was a miser, one of the wealthiest men in any of the Five Towns, a group of small industrial towns joined by a single road. He was a former Methodist lay preacher and teacher, concerned more with getting congregations in sound financial shape than with their souls. Although he had married money and made more money from rentals and foreclosures, he lived in the most frugal way possible and gave his two daughters nothing but the barest essentials. Both of his wives had died, the first giving him his daughter Anna and the second producing Agnes before...
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