It certainly does, though I don’t currently have a Bennett on the curriculum. He does get an honourable mention. The New Vic’s recent production of The Grand Babylon Hotel was a real treat.

(2/2) 'You would not get the same treatment in London under any circumstances' - Arnold Bennett in journal, 26 September 1904 [Bennett had moved to live in Paris in March 1903; the following summer he returned to England, visited HG Wells and went to Scotland in search of a cure for his stammer]

'To write popular fiction is offensive to me, but it is far more agreeable than being tied daily to an office and editing a lady’s paper; and perhaps it is less ignoble, and less of a strain on the conscience.' (3/3)

'Till the end of 1899 I propose to give myself absolutely to writing the sort of fiction that sells itself. My serious novel Anna Tellwright with which I have made some progress is put aside indefinitely – or rather until I have seen what I can do. ... (2/3)