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J. B. Priestley
Standard Name: Priestley, J. B.
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Beryl Bainbridge | In English Journey; or, The Road to Milton Keynes, BB
described retracing the steps of J. B. Priestley
's English Journey (published in 1934; jubilee edition this same year). Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
| Textual Features | Beryl Bainbridge | BB
borrows Priestley
's style while capturing the changes that fifty years have brought to his subject-matter. Her title is ironic, since the new town of Milton Keynes (conceived in 1967) was not thought of... |
| 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... |
| Reception | Arnold Bennett | This novel won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and Bennett was buoyed up by positive reviews from J. B. Priestley
, H. G. Wells
, Joseph Conrad
and Thomas Hardy
. He was annoyed... |
| Friends, Associates | Phyllis Bentley | PB
attended a deliciously literary Bentley, Phyllis. "O Dreams, O Destinations". Gollancz. 151 Bentley, Phyllis. "O Dreams, O Destinations". Gollancz. 150-2 |
| 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. 24 Bentley, Phyllis. "O Dreams, O Destinations". Gollancz. 149 |
| Publishing | Phyllis Bentley | For over fifty years PB
was a prolific contributor to periodicals: of reviews, short stories, historical sketches, and more. In about 1920 she began reviewing for the Yorkshire Observer, and in 1929, after being... |
| Reception | Brigid Brophy | In 1954 BB
was awarded the Cheltenham Festival
Prize for a first novel, consisting of a payment of fifty pounds. Her publisher, Rupert Hart-Davis
, had entered the book without her knowledge. She went to... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Jane Howard | The play presents a woman torn between marriage and her career as a dancer. Influenced probably by J. M. Barrie
and J. B. Priestley
, it presents two alternative outcomes, with the second act tracing... |
| 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. 109 |
| Leisure and Society | Naomi Jacob | NJ
claimed it was more practical and more economical to dress in male clothes: 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. Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin). 69 |
| Textual Production | Storm Jameson | SJ
edited and wrote in Challenge to Death: A Symposium on War and Peace, an anthology featuring Vera Brittain
, Winifred Holtby
, Rebecca West
, Edmund Blunden
, Julian Huxley
, J. B. Priestley
, and Guy Chapman
. Birkett, Jennifer. Margaret Storm Jameson: A Life. Oxford University Press. 123n53 Jameson, Storm, editor. Challenge to Death. Constable. prelims Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row. 326-7 |
| Textual Production | Storm Jameson | Jameson had been approached by the Ministry of Information
once the USA had entered World War II, for suggestions on how to cement Anglo-American relations. Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row. 524 |
| 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... |
Timeline
July 1929: J. B. Priestley published his novel The Good...
Writing climate item
July 1929
J. B. Priestley
published his novelThe Good Companions, which became a best-seller and made his name.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Texts
Murdoch, Iris, and J. B. Priestley. A Severed Head. Chatto and Windus, 1963.