Five Towns

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Five Towns is a fictional industrial district in Staffordshire, England, created by Arnold Bennett and based on the real Potteries, which serves as the backdrop for many of his novels.

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Label Occurrences
Five Towns canonical 4
the Five Towns 3
The Five Towns 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional place
literary setting
appearsIn novels by Arnold Bennett
short stories by Arnold Bennett
associatedWith Staffordshire Potteries
basedOn Stoke-on-Trent
The Potteries
correspondsTo Burslem
Hanley
Longton
Stoke
Tunstall
country England
creator Arnold Bennett
depictsIndustry ceramics
coal mining
ironworks
describedAs fictional industrial district
genre realist fiction setting
hasPart Bursley
Hanbridge
Knype
Longshaw
Turnhill
hasTheme class conflict
industrial capitalism
social mobility
urbanization
languageOfWork English
literaryMovement Edwardian literature
locatedIn Staffordshire
notableFor depiction of English pottery industry
settingFor stories about industrialization
stories about working-class life
timePeriodDepicted early 20th century
late 19th century
usedIn Anna of the Five Towns
Clayhanger
Hilda Lessways
The Card
The Grim Smile of the Five Towns
The Matador of the Five Towns
The Old Wives’ Tale
These Twain

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Clayhanger settingLocation Five Towns
Sophia Baines residesInFictionalPlace the Five Towns
linked to: Five Towns
The Matador of the Five Towns setting the Five Towns
linked to: Five Towns
Henry Mynors associatedWith the Five Towns
linked to: Five Towns
Edward Henry Machin fictionalRegion The Five Towns
linked to: Five Towns