A selective list of literary criticism for the Edwardian novelist Arnold Bennett, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association guidelines for web pages
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Cartlidge, Neil. A substantial introduction to Arnold Bennett in the Literary Encyclopedia. About Bennett's novels, says Cartlidge, "The Old Wives's Tale (1908) and Clayhanger (1910) in particular have good claim to be considered as high points both of the Edwardian novel and of the English Realist tradition."
Dover, R. "MA English Literary Culture: 1880-1920." A syllabus on Edwardian writing by Dr. Dover; covers Arnold Bennett, Rupert Brook, Samuel Butler, G K Chesterton, Joseph Conrad, E M Forster, John Galsworthy, Edmund Gosse, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, D H Lawrence, George Moore, G B Shaw, George Sturt, H G Wells, W B Yeats
A UK government site on Arnold Bennett includes links to paragraph-long articles and the e-text versions on many of his books
An extensive web site on Arnold Bennett from Stoke-on-Trent, his hometown. Includes a short discussion of Virginia Woolf's criticism of his writing in her essay "Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown." (taken offline or moved)
Information about the real towns of Bennett's "Five Towns" novels, from a tourist site for the Potteries
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