Editing Stoke-on-Trent (section)

===Literature===
[[File:Arnold Bennett - Project Gutenberg etext 13635.jpg|thumbnail|right|Arnold Bennett, raised in Hanley.]]

Through the works of [[Arnold Bennett]], described by some as the greatest [[Realism (theatre)|realist]] writer of the 20th century,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/content/articles/2006/04/04/local_heroes_arnold_bennett_feature.shtml |title=Arnold Bennett – Potteries author |publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation |work=BBC Stoke & Staffordshire |access-date=20 May 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106101802/http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/content/articles/2006/04/04/local_heroes_arnold_bennett_feature.shtml |archive-date=6 January 2009 |url-status=live }}</ref> the "Six Towns" were sometimes known as the "Five Towns".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk/bennett.htm |title=Arnold Bennett Profile |work=Literary Heritage |publisher=Shropshire County Council |access-date=6 May 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070503012007/http://www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk/bennett.htm |archive-date=3 May 2007  }}</ref> In his novels, Bennett wrote about local events in the 19th century<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/li/specarc/archives/bennett.htm |title=Arnold Bennett Papers |publisher=Keele University |access-date=20 May 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929115435/http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/li/specarc/archives/bennett.htm |archive-date=29 September 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and consistently changed all proper names and associations, thus Hanley became Hanbridge and Burslem became Bursley.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thepotteries.org/people_famous/bennett/locations.htm |title=Arnold Bennett and The Potteries |publisher=Steve Birks |access-date=20 May 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070513042111/http://www.thepotteries.org/people_famous/bennett/locations.htm |archive-date=13 May 2007 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Studies in the sources of Arnold Bennett's novels |last=Tillier |first=Louis |year=1969 |publisher=Didier |asin=B0006CRU2S}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Arnold Bennett and Stoke-on-Trent |last=Warrilow |first=E. J. D. |year=1966 |publisher=Etruscan Publications |asin=B000GWKVMO}}</ref> The "Six Towns" were not federated until 1910 when Fenton was still relatively new. It was the smallest in terms of population and area. Bennett also changed the name of the local newspaper from ''The Sentinel'' to ''The Signal'', an identity that was subsequently adopted by the city's commercial radio station.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.signalradio.com/about.php |title=About Us |publisher=Signal Radio |access-date=20 May 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070927070425/http://www.signalradio.com/about.php <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 27 September 2007}}</ref>

Other notable contributors to literature include [[Elijah Fenton]] (poet), [[Peter Whelan (playwright)|Peter Whelan]] (playwright), [[John Wain]] (poet, critic and scholar), [[Pauline Stainer]] (poet) and [[Charles Tomlinson]] (poet, graphic artist, translator, editor and critic).

In [[Jorge Luis Borges]]' novel "[[The Garden of Forking Paths]]", Dr. Yu Tsun goes to a suburb of Fenton to meet Stephen Albert.{{importance-inline|date=August 2024}}