J. B. Priestley

Standard Name: Priestley, J. B.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Dorothy Whipple
On its first appearance DW felt this to be an adequate, rather commonplace novel.
Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph.
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J. B. Priestley wrote: A grand novel, with a good shape to it . . . . Your women are...
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...
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 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, p. vii - xix.
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Vita Sackville West , however...
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.
men's tailored suits, generally with a tie, and her hair cropped. (She wore a skirt to Mass.)
Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin).
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She adopted a...
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.
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Friends, Associates Phyllis Bentley
PB attended a deliciously literary
Bentley, Phyllis. "O Dreams, O Destinations". Gollancz.
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dinner party at J. B. Priestley 's Hampstead home, where she met Thornton Wilder , George Doran and A. D. Peters (who was soon to become her literary agent).
Bentley, Phyllis. "O Dreams, O Destinations". Gollancz.
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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 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 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...
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.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(21 September 1966): 12

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