J. B. Priestley

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. The resulting volume includes work by Phyllis Bentley ,...

NJ claimed it was more practical and more economical to dress in male clothes: men's tailored suits, generally with a tie, and her hair cropped. (She wore a skirt to Mass.) She adopted a...

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...

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.

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...

PB attended a deliciously literary 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).

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.

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...

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...

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...

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).

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...