Lucas comments that the best of the novels written while in France – "Whom God Hath Joined" (1906), "The Old Wives' Tale" (1908), and "Clayhanger" (1910) – "justly established Bennett as a major exponent of realistic fiction". In addition to these, Bennett published lighter novels such as "The Card" (1911). His output of literary journalism included articles for T. P. O'Connor's "T.P.'s Weekly" and the left-wing "The New Age"; his pieces for the latter, published under a pen-name, were concise literary essays aimed at "the general cultivated reader", a form taken up by a later generation of writers including J. B. Priestley and V. S. Pritchett.