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A Man of His Time remains the chronicles of the Oldroyd and Morcar young families, which began with Inheritance and The Rise of Henry Morcar, to complete an remarkable trilogy of the Western Riding. The years of change from 1958 to 1965 present Henry Morcar with the severest challenges and trickiest tasks of his life as he surmounts successive disasters only to find his life's work threatened. A Man of his Time is a story of conflict between time and youth, between Morcar and younger era around him. These descendants of Oldroyds, Bamforths, Morcars, and Mellors are real and living, from the past but vibrantly thought in their own time. Phyllis Bentley (1894-1977) printed her first work in 1918, a assortment of short reviews entitled The World's Bane, and she printed several poor-selling novels. The publication in March 1932 of her best-known work, Inheritance, place against the backdrop of the development of the textile industry in the Western Riding, received wide-spread critical acclaim and ran through 23 impressions by 1946, making her the first successful British local novelist since Thomas Hardy and his Wessex. In 1949 she was awarded an honorary DLitt from Leeds College or university; in 1958 she became a Fellow of the Royal Culture of Books; and in 1970 was awarded an OBE.
