We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.

a wool firm in the Swan Arcade. He moved into a new genre and became equally well known as a dramatist. Many of his works have a socialist aspect.

His output included literary and social criticism. John Boynton Priestley OM (13 September 1894 – 14 August 1984) known as J. He publiJ. B. Priestleyd 26 novels notably The Good Companions (1929) as well as numerous dramas such as An Inspector Calls (1945).