J. B. Priestley

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.

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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).

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 .

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 ,...