[Vwoolf] Woolf mentioned in an article on Arnold Bennett's "revival" in The Times

[Neverow, Vara S.]

Greetings,

The link below leads to Times article that is inaccessible for anyone who does not have a subscription (and I do not have a subscription). The article may be of interest...the first paragraph indicates that Woolf has eclipsed Bennett almost entirely. See below:

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/its-time-for-an-arnold-bennett-revival-6bhclnmtt__;!!KGKeukY!zWoJhDM1ucg_uS59rV0Dk8tvas8rBgU9WNM1mmpzLzMLH2ymPpeg1Hmuj3SbDBiDvEHvUpxQCFkm9TP0YMRvtrn9qfoQ$ 

Is Arnold Bennett back in fashion? Not quite. It’s unlikely his reputation will ever come close to reaching the level he enjoyed at the time of his death in 1931. If the Potteries-born writer still has his admirers today, they’re vastly outnumbered by those of his Bloomsbury nemesis, Virginia Woolf, the writer who did so much to turn the tastemakers against him. Hostile to his plain speaking and his brand of realism, she dismissed him as “an insignificant little man”. Today, mention of Bennett raises thoughts of the omelette bearing his name<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tom-kitchins-omelette-arnold-bennett-this-savoy-classic-is-a-sunday-brunch-favourite-g93f9qg86__;!!KGKeukY!zWoJhDM1ucg_uS59rV0Dk8tvas8rBgU9WNM1mmpzLzMLH2ymPpeg1Hmuj3SbDBiDvEHvUpxQCFkm9TP0YMRvtsnJ-55g$ > that is still on the menu at one of his favourite haunts, the Savoy Grill. (He and Winston Churchill, another regular, would hail each other from their tables.) The millions of TV viewers....[the paragraph continues but a subscription is required].

Vara

Vara Neverow
(she/her/hers)
Professor, English Department and Women’s and Gender Studies Program
Managing Editor, Virginia Woolf Miscellany
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, CT 06515
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neverowv1 at southernct.edu

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