J. B. Priestley

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...

A Severed Head, a play adapted by IM and J. B. Priestley from her novel of the same name, had its first performance, at the Theatre Royal , Bristol.

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...

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.Vita Sackville West , however...

The Council for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons (forerunner of CND) was founded. DR was present at its inaugural meeting next day; other prominent members were Vera Brittain , Julian Huxley , J. B. Priestley

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...

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...

Her fellow signatories included Violet Bonham Carter , Stafford Cripps , archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans , historian H. A. L. Fisher , scientist-philosopher Julian Huxley , sculptor Laura Knight , writers Edith Lyttelton and J. B. Priestley

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...

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.

On its first appearance DW felt this to be an adequate, rather commonplace novel.J. B. Priestley wrote: A grand novel, with a good shape to it . . . . Your women are...

Though she has had no academic attention until very recently, EHY appealed to a wide readership. Her works remained steadily in print during her lifetime. Writers of blurbs for her covers included E. M. Delafield