In 1900 Bennett resigned his post at "Woman", and left London to set up house at Trinity Hall Farm, near the village of Hockliffe in Bedfordshire, where he made a home not only for himself but for his parents and younger sister. He completed "Anna of the Five Towns" in 1901; it was published the following year, as was its successor, "The Grand Babylon Hotel", an extravagant story of crime in high society, which sold 50,000 copies in hardback and was translated into four languages. By this stage he was confident enough in his abilities to tell a friend: