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7th April 2025

On the Post this week we have art galleries in places with strong literary connections. This is part of the long frieze above the entrance to the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent. It is made from, and illustrates, local materials and crafts: clay, bricks, and pottery. All of these feature in Arnold Bennett's best-known novel, Anna of the Five Towns (1902). In one chapter he describes every step of the pottery process, as Mynors gives Anna a guided tour of his works, including the painting-shop where the paintresses, 'the noblesse of the banks' work (one is seen here on the far left).

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