Baxendale, John: Priestley's England: J. B. Priestley and English Culture.(Brief article)

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Baxendale, John

Priestley's England: J. B. Priestley and English Culture

Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press

256 pp., $74.95, ISBN 978-0-7190-7286-4

Publication Date: February 2008

In the MLA International Bibliography, J. B. Priestley rates only 67 hits, compared with 4506 for Virginia Woolf. John Baxendale's critical study, brief though it is, is an important step toward correcting that rank injustice. Priestley was one of the most popular British writers of the mid-twentieth century. His English Journey (1934) is still ...

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