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J.B PRIESTLEYJ.B PRIESTLEYJ.B PRIESTLEYJ.B PRIESTLEY
LIFE AND WORKSLIFE AND WORKSLIFE AND WORKSLIFE AND WORKS
1894 John Boynton Priestley born, 13 September, in Bradford
Yorkshire
1910Priestley leaves school and takes a
jobwith a firm of wool merchants
1914 – 1918
Priestley joins 10th Duke of Wellington’s Regiment. Serves on front line in France. Is wounded and gassed.
1919• Awarded a place at Trinity Hall,
Cambridge, to study literature, history and political science
1921• Marries Pat Tempest, a young
woman he met in Bradford
1922• Begins work in London as journalist
writing for publications such as The Times Literary Supplement and The New Statesman
• Publishes his first collection of essays under the title Brief Diversions
1925• The English Comic Character is
published• His first wife, Pat Priestley, dies of
cancer
1925• Marries Jane Wyndham Lewis, with
whom he had been having an affair during Pat’s illness, and by whom he already had a daugher, Mary
1932• Writes Dangerous Corner
1934• Uses his travels through poorer
parts of Britain to write English Journey
1937• Writes play Time and Conways
1938• Writes When We Are Married
1939-1940• Makes regular wartime broadcasts
on BBC Radio, 1940 radio talks published as Britain Speaks
1945• An Inspector Calls is written
1952• After many affairs, Priestley
divorces Jane and marries the writer Jacquetta Hawkes
1957• Writes the article ‘ Russia, the
Atom and the West’ in The New Statesman; as a result the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is formed
1962• Writes Margin Released, first
volume of his autobiography
1977• Second part of autobiography,
Instead of The Tree is written
1984• J.B Priestley dies
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