“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(21 September 1966): 12
J. B. Priestley
Standard Name: Priestley, J. B.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| death | Dorothy Whipple | J. B. Priestley
, who wrote her brief Times obituary, had been out of touch until that year, but had the impression that she had become an invalid. |
| Friends, Associates | Ngaio Marsh | She had a wide circle of friends and contacts both in England and in New Zealand, where she knew everyone in the theatrical world. At her home in Christchurch she entertained visiting celebrities like, in... |
| Friends, Associates | Dorothy Whipple | Other speakers who came to stay were J. B. Priestley
and St John Ervine
, who at first talked like a river in spate and ignored his hostess. Later, however, he too, like Priestley, became... |
| Friends, Associates | G. B. Stern | Other plums were Max Beerbohm
, H. G. Wells
, Somerset Maugham
, J. B. Priestley
, and Humbert Wolfe
. Questioned by a reporter about the reason for the party, GBS
suggested that she... |
| Friends, Associates | Phyllis Bentley | PB
attended a deliciously literary Bentley, Phyllis. "O Dreams, O Destinations". Gollancz, 1962. 151 Bentley, Phyllis. "O Dreams, O Destinations". Gollancz, 1962. 150-2 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Jane Howard | They talked enthusiastically to J. B. Priestley
about their idea, and a couple of years later he used it in a play of his own. Howard, Elizabeth Jane. Slipstream. Macmillan, 2002. 109 |
| Leisure and Society | Naomi Jacob | NJ
claimed it was more practical and more economical to dress in male clothes: qtd. in Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin), 2001. 69 |
| Literary responses | Kate O'Brien | This novel won KOB
both the James Tait Black Prize and the Hawthornden prize. It was praised by another fine practitioner of the realistic novel, J. B. Priestley
, as a peculiarly beautiful and arresting... |
| Literary responses | Dorothy Whipple | On its first appearance DW
felt this to be an adequate, rather commonplace novel. Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph, 1966. 47 |
| Literary responses | Alison Uttley | This book pleased some prestigious critics. Although the New Statesman was rather sniffy and the New English Weekly hostile, Margery Allingham
in Time and Tide called it enchanting. Humbert Wolfe
in the Observer said... |
| Literary responses | E. Arnot Robertson | J. B. Priestley
, focussing on the noble-savage aspects of this story, complained that its characters do not really come from Borneo, they come from Rousseau
and cloud-cuckoo land. Devlin, Polly, and E. Arnot Robertson. “Introduction”. Four Frightened People, Virago, 1982, p. vii - xix. ix |
| Literary responses | Phyllis Bentley | The Spinner of the Years sold about a thousand copies, and received good notices in the Times, Saturday Review, The Observer and other periodicals. J. B. Priestley
was one of those who praised it. Johnson, George M., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 191. Gale Research, 1998. 24 Bentley, Phyllis. "O Dreams, O Destinations". Gollancz, 1962. 149 |
| Literary responses | Marghanita Laski | The production of this play caused loud controversy. The Times published a scathing critique: Miss Laski seems to have written it more in an excess of public-spirited zeal than out of any creative urgency. Like... |
| Literary responses | Q. D. Leavis | Fiction and the Reading Public was widely reviewed. In the Criterion of July 1932, T. S. Eliot
commended its argument: A society which does not recognize the existence of art is barbaric. But a society... |
| Occupation | Hélène Barcynska | As well as devoting steady time and effort to her writing, HB
founded a theatre company which she called Rogues and Vagabonds Repertory Players
, because she discovered the Welsh theatre culture and thought they... |
Timeline
July 1929: J. B. Priestley published his novel The Good...
Writing climate item
July 1929
J. B. Priestley
published his novel The Good Companions, which became a best-seller and made his name.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
After February 1932: An appeal of Count Potocki of Montalk's case...
Writing climate item
After February 1932
An appeal of Count Potocki of Montalk
's case was heard; and although he was not cleared, an advance in obscene libel cases was made.
Craig, Alec. The Banned Books of England and Other Countries. George Allen and Unwin, 1962.
89-90
24 February 1934: The National Council for Civil Liberties...
National or international item
24 February 1934
The National Council for Civil Liberties
was founded by journalist Ronald Kidd
, who had witnessed the treatment of hunger marchers in London in November 1932.
Liberty: A Brief History. http://web.archive.org/web/20080807173131/http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/about/1-history/index.shtml.
Blondel, Nathalie. Mary Butts: Scenes from the Life. McPherson & Company, 1998.
443n8
16 November 1938: The BBC televised for the first time a play...
National or international item
16 November 1938
The BBC
televised for the first time a play direct from the theatre, J. B. Priestley
's When We Are Married.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
374
17 February 1958: CND, or the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament,...
Building item
17 February 1958
CND, or the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
, was founded at a public meeting in London; it held its first march that spring, at the Easter weekend.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
299
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
Texts
Murdoch, Iris, and J. B. Priestley. A Severed Head. Chatto and Windus, 1963.