Title: The Fabric of J. B. Priestley’s Indigenous Social Voices
Abstract: In the Indian summer of 1935, about when the issue of Time that concentrated on praise of Sir Samuel Hoare’s diplomatic skill, Moral Rearmament, and the fiction of A. J. Cronin appeared, J. B. Priestley (1894–1984) was in New York on his second visit to America. At the height of his popularity in England—The Good Companions was his first successful novel in 1929 and had been followed by Angel Pavement (1930) and the travel ramble of English Journey (1934); his plays also achieved a wide English public, particularly Dangerous Corner in 1932, Laburnum Grove in 1933, and Eden End in 1934—Priestley had come to New York to supervise the production of Eden End because he thought New York productions of three of his previous plays had been badly done. At first he was exhilarated by the energy of New York, as he had been on his first visit. But he found that, for days, the people he met would talk of nothing except the heavyweight championship fight in which Joe Louis knocked out Max Baer. Walking the streets in his heavy suits and starched shirts in the hot weather, and reading whatever news from Europe he could, Priestley became despondent. As his recent biographer, Vincent Brome, records his impressions, they bear no resemblance to those of the writers of Time magazine:
Publication Year: 1992
Publication Date: 1992-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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