AQA English Literature GCSE An Inspector Calls. Context: J. B. Priestley John Boynton Priestley was born in 1894. He was born in Heaton, Bradford. Priestley.

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AQA English Literature GCSE An Inspector Calls

Context: J. B. Priestley John Boynton Priestley was born in He was born in Heaton, Bradford. Priestley called Heaton an “ultra-respectable” suburb of Bradford. Priestley’s parents were middle class. Priestley’s first job was as a junior clerk in a wool company. Priestley joined the British Army during the First World War.

Late in the war, and following a German gas attack, Priestley was declared unfit for service. After the First World War, and on his return to Britain, Priestley read Modern History and Political Science at Cambridge. By 1922 Priestley was well established as a journalist and critic. In the 1930s, at the time of The Great Depression, he became increasingly concerned with social problems and industrial strife. In 1940, during the Second World War, Priestley presented Postscripts – a radio programme on the BBC – where he expressed his left-wing political views. The Conservatives (Churchill’s Cabinet) complained about Priestley’s programme and in October 1940 the BBC axed it.

In 1941, and dismayed with the political truce during the war, Priestley and a group of friends founded the socialist Common Wealth Party. After the Second World War, Priestley continued his work as a journalist and writer. The title of the play written by Priestley in 1945 was An Inspector Calls. The first performance of the play was in Russia in The first UK performance of the play was at the New Theatre, London on 1 st October 1946 In 1957, his article – ‘Russia, the Atom and the West’ – led to the formation of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).

Priestley’s interest in the concept of time was seen in his article, ‘Man and Time’, which was published in Priestley wrote an introduction to Antonia Raeburn’s The Militant Suffragettes in 1973? He was awarded the Order of Merit in 1977 Priestley died in 1984

Task Look at the following book covers and posters for J. B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls. Use them to make predictions about: setting – both in time and place; plot – what happens; characters; themes; any other ideas.

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