1. James Hepburn (ed.) (1976) Letters of Arnold Bennett III 1916–1931 (London: Oxford University Press), p. 203.
2. Arnold Bennett (1923) Riceyman Steps (London: Cassell), p. 160.
3. James Hepburn (1963) The Art of Arnold Bennett (Bloomington: Indiana University Press), p. 11.
4. Andrew Mylett (ed.) (1974) Arnold Bennett: The Evening Standard Years, Books & Persons 1926–1931 (London: Chatto & Windus), p. 403. Subsequent references will be in parenthesis in the text.
5. Newman Flower (ed.) (1932) The Journals of Arnold Bennett I 1896–1910(London: Cassell), p. 31.