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Phyllis Bentley, a local of Halifax, has written many novels with a background set in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Her descriptive ability has been in comparison to that of the Brontës, who resided but 12 mls from Miss Bentley's home. Of her reports "THE HOME of Moreys" is perhaps best known, and in the same blunt, homely, Yorkshire tradition comes her book Noble in Reason. So intimately written that it appears to be an autobiography, it instructs the story of Christopher Jarmayne, a delicate, hypersensitive lad who suffers a good deal from sustained friction with the powerful Yorkshire family into which he was born. Filled with self-pity and resentment, he spends an miserable life until he realizes, in a moment of illumination, that he's as tiresome to them because they are to him. Inside the light of the revelation he instructs the strange and poignant storyline of his life and, with the knowledge gained from experience, he makes it a remarkable and fascinating storyline of unusual ability. Phyllis Bentley (1894-1977) posted her first work in 1918, a assortment of short reports entitled The World's Bane, and she posted several poor-selling novels. The publication in March 1932 of her best-known work, Inheritance, set against the background of the development of the textile industry in the Western Riding, received popular critical acclaim and ran through 23 impressions by 1946, making her the first successful British regional novelist since Thomas Hardy and his Wessex. In 1949 she was granted an honorary DLitt from Leeds University; in 1958 she became a Fellow of the Royal Contemporary society of Literature; and in 1970 was granted an OBE.
