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Arnold Bennet
the first of a trilogy
followed by Hilda Lessways 1911 and These Twain 1916
Edwin Clayhanger 's life over 20 years is traced from the day he leaves school in 1872 aged 16
the central relationship of Edwin and his father , Darius, was inspired by Bennett 's own struggles with a dominating parent
the novel ends with Edwin and Hilda's plan to marry
The Clayhanger Family is a series of novels by Arnold Bennett, published between 1910 and 1918. Though the series is commonly referred to as a "trilogy", and the first three novels were published in a single volume, as The Clayhanger Family, in 1925, there are actually four books. All four are set in the "Five Towns", Bennett's thinly disguised version of the six towns of the Potteries district that merged into the borough (later city) of Stoke-on-Trent. Buildings described in the novels are still identifiable in Burslem, the basis for the fictional town of "Bursley".[1]

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