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Bibliography. 1931 (adaption with Edward Knoblock) 1932 1933 The Roundabout 1934 1934 1935 Duet in Floodlight 1936 Cornelius 1936 Spring Tide (with George Billam) 1936 Bees on the Boatdeck 1937 1937 Mystery at Greenfingers 1937 1937 People at Sea 1938 (published 1947) 1938 1939 Johnson Over Jordan 1940 The Long Mirror (published 1947) 1942 Good Night Children 1944 They Came to a City 1944 Desert Highway 1945 How Are They at Home? 1946 Ever Since Paradise 1947 1947 The Rose and Crown 1948 1948 The Golden Fleece 1948 The High Toby (for Toy Theatre) 1949 The Olympians (opera, music by Arthur Bliss) 1949 Home is Tomorrow 1950 Summer Day’s Dream 1950 Bright Shadow 1952 Dragon’s Mouth (with ) 1953 Treasure on Pelican 1953 Try It Again 1953 Private Rooms 1953 Mother’s Day 1954 A Glass of Bitter 1955 Mr Kettle and Mrs Moon 1956 Take the Fool Away 1958 1963 The Pavilion of Masks 1964 A Severed Head (with Iris Murdoch) 1974 The White Countess (with Jacquetta Hawkes) FICTION. 1927 Adam in Moonshine 1927 1929 Farthing Hall (with Hugh Walpole) 1929 The Good Companions 1930 The Town Major of Miraucourt 1930 1933 Wonder Hero 1933 Albert Goes Through 1933 I’ll Tell You Everything (with Gerald Bullett) 1936 They Walk in the City 1938 The Doomsday Men 1939 Let the People Sing 1942 Blackout in Gretley 1943 1945 Three Men in New Suits 1946 1947 Jenny Villiers 1951 Festival at Farbridge 1953 The Other Place 1954 The Magicians 1954 Low Notes on a High Level 1961 Saturn Over the Water 1961 The Thirty First of June 1962 The Shapes of Sleep 1964 Sir Michael and Sir George 1965 1966 Salt is Leaving 1967 It’s an Old Country 1968 The Image Men : vol.1 Out of Town, vol.2 London End 1971 Snoggle 1975 The Carfitt Crisis 1976 Found Lost Found. ISBN 13: 9780140038194. THE YEARS OF QUEEN VICTORIA'S GREATEST HAPPINESS WITH PRINCE ALBERT, THE 1850S WITH THE GREAT EXHIBITION AND FLOWERING OF THE ARTS. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Shipping: US$ 4.95 Within U.S.A. Other Popular Editions of the Same Title. Featured Edition. ISBN 10: 0060134135 ISBN 13: 9780060134136 Publisher: Harper & Row, 1972 Hardcover. Heinemann, 1972 Hardcover. Customers who bought this item also bought. Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace. 1. Victoria's Heyday [Paperback] Priestley, J B. Book Description Condition: New. New. Seller Inventory # Q-0140038191. Shop With Us. Sell With Us. About Us. Find Help. Other AbeBooks Companies. Follow AbeBooks. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Victoria's Heyday by J.B. Priestley. The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 . Henry Wyndham Phillips (1820-1868). Surrounded by his advisors, Prince Albert looks at plans for the Exhibition: According to J. B. Priestley, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Lord Derby, who served as Tory Prime Minister in 1852-53, 1858-59, and 1866-68 sits at the right while Robert Stephenson, the great railway engineer, stands at the right. Next to him is Sir Robert Peel, Conservative Prime Minister in both the 1830s and '40s. Lord John Russell, Whig prime minister from 1846 to 1852 and 1866 to 1868, stands behind the Prince Consort facing left. Sir Joseph Paxton leans forward with his finger on the table. William Cubitt, who was president of The Institute of Civil Engineers and was Chairman of the Building committee of the Great Exhibition, sits in the front, and a Mr. Fox stands behind him. Sir Henry Cole is the shortest of the three men standing at left. [An earlier version of the caption above misidentified the Cubitt present as "Lewis Cubitt, who designed King's Cross Railway Station," but Frank Clement-Lorford kindly wrote in 2006 to correct the error I had repeated from my source. He added: "William Cubitt was knighted at the same time as Joseph Paxton. Mixing up Cubitts is quite common, and several authors have done so, and so has The Institute of Civil Engineers. They have also mixed them up with the other William Cubitt, who was Lord Mayor of London in 1861. This William had a brother Thomas Cubitt, whom Victoria used to refer to as 'our Cubitt.' He was the largest builder in London, and his younger brother was Lewis Cubitt."] In November 2011 Chris Wardley wrote to pout out “a memoir on the life of Sir Charles Fox in the proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers of 1874/75 (following his death in 1874) part of which reads:” The most important work carried out by him and his partner, Mr. John Henderson, was the erection of the building for the Exhibition of 1851 in Hyde Park. The work was commenced towards the end of September 1850, and the Exhibition was opened by her Majesty the Queen on the 1st of May, 1851. For his connection with this work Sir Charles Fox, together with Sir William Cubitt and Sir Joseph Paxton, received the honour of knighthood. “Cubitt,” he continues, “was what in today's terms would be described as Project Director and Fox, Henderson & Co Design & Build Contractors for the "Crystal Palace."” Bibliography. Priestley, J. B. Victoria's Heyday: 1837-1901 . New York: Harper & Row, 1977, p. 64-65. Clement-Lorford, Frank. [Information about William Cubitt and others with same family name]. Private communication (e-mail), 12 July 2006. Wardley, Chris. [Information about Sir Charles Fox, Cubitt, and others]. Private communication (e-mail), 9 November 2011. J. B. Priestley. John Boynton Priestley was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, in the North of on September 13, 1894, the son of Jonathan Priestley, a schoolmaster. His early education was at the Bradford School, but this career was interrupted, as happened to many of his contemporaries, by service in World War I. He served with both the Duke of Wellington's and the Devon regiments from 1914 to 1919. After the war he matriculated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he studied history and political science as well as English literature. Already writing and publishing as an undergraduate, he was able to pay some of his university bills by selling articles to provincial and London newspapers. In 1922 he settled in London, rapidly establishing a reputation as essayist, critic, and novelist. From his earliest writings, Priestley may be described as a comic rationalist. The contradictions and absurdities of the human situation, he wrote, could best be borne by a stance of ironic detachment. This perspective is perhaps closest to that of Priestley's predecessor, the novelist George Meredith (1828-1909). Not surprisingly, one of the best of Priestley's early critical works is a biography of Meredith in the English Men of Letters series ( George Meredith, 1926). Another early influence was Meredith's father-in-law, the satirist Thomas Love Peacock, subject of another fine Priestley biography in the same series in 1927. About this time Priestley achieved great popularity himself as a novelist through two works centering on the comic interplay of people engaged in a common calling. The Good Companions (1929) is about the joys and sorrows of the members of a repertory company in the north of England. It was a success in the United States as well as in England. The following year Angel Pavement appeared, whose characters worked in a small London business firm. Other notable and popular novels followed: They Walk in the City (1936), The Doomsday Men (1938), Let the People Sing (1939), and Festival at Farbridge (1951). All of these are fairly long novels, each with a lively balance between memorable, accurately- observed character and meticulously-crafted, suspenseful plot, featuring often rogueish heroes on the move—another recrudescence of the English picaresque in a tradition going back to the 1740s, beginning with Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews. A strain of sentimentality is often present, but it is usually corrected by the "silvery laughter" of Priestley's comic spirit. Other novels of this author combine autobiographical detail with a social criticism less bitter than Priestley's 1930s contemporary George Orwell. Examples of this type include (1934), Midnight on the Desert (1937), and Rain Upon Godshill (1939). One aspect of all of Priestley's fiction is its theatricality—from the beginning he had a fine flair for dialogue; in fact, soon after its success as a novel he adapted The Good Companions into a play (1931, with E. Knoblock). The next year saw the debut of Priestley as a bonafide dramatist with Dangerous Corner; it was a resounding success and was performed all over the world. This acclaim encouraged the author to organize his own company, for which he wrote plays of consistently high quality. Some were comedies, such as Laburnum Grove (1933) and When We Are Married (1938). As a dramatist Priestley was influenced by the theories of time and recurrence propounded by the philosopher J. W. Dunne (1875-1949), especially as developed in Experiment with Time and The Serial Universe. Dunne's concepts are dramatized in Priestley's serious "metaphysical" plays, such as Time and the Conway (1937), I Have Been There Before (1938), and Johnson over Jordan (1939). After World War II, J. B. Priestley took an active role in the international cultural community. He was a United Kingdom delegate to United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) conferences in 1946 and 1947. He was chairman of theater conferences in Paris in 1947 and in Prague the following year. In 1949 he served as president of the International Theatre Institute. Back home he was chosen chairman of the British Theatre Conference (1948) and also served as a member of the National Theatre Board (1966-1967). In 1973, then nearly 80 years of age, he served his home city of Bradford as Freeman. To Priestley's assets of longevity and versatility we may add flexibility—his adapting of the printed word to newer media of communication during and after World War II. During the war he became even more well known than before through his talks on radio; because of his understanding of and sympathy for the average citizen he was able to make a direct personal appeal using this medium. His film credits include screenplays for The Foreman Went to France (1942) and Last Holiday (1956). Back in the world of theater, he helped the novelist Iris Murdoch translate her hit novel A Severed Head into a successful play (1963). Priestley had a son and four daughters through earlier marriages; in 1953 he became part of a famous husband-wife literary team when he married the archeologist and writer Jacquetta Hawkes. She had also worked for UNESCO and in the film industry. Together they wrote the play Dragon's Mouth (1952) and Journey Down a Rainbow (1955). A stay in New Zealand enabled him to write the travel piece A Visit to New Zealand (1974). Priestley's autobiography, Instead of the Trees, appeared three years later. Still more evidence of this writer's versatility includes the libretto for an opera, The Olympians (1948); Delight, a book of essays (1949); The Art of the Dramatist, criticism (1957); and The Edwardians, social history (1970). J. B. Priestley died quietly at his home in Stratford-on-Avon on August 14, 1984. Further Reading. Other books by Priestley include Ape and Angels (1928), The Prince of Pleasures and His Regency (1969), and Victoria's Heyday (1972). His essays of five decades were collected and edited by Susan Cooper in 1969. Two excellent assessments of Priestley's work are J. B. Priestley by John Braine (1978) and J. B. Priestley, Last of the Sages by John Atkins (1980). Perhaps Priestley will be most enduringly known for his contribution to the theater. Analysis of his contribution to this genre is made by Gareth Lloyd Evans in J. B. Priestley: The Dramatist (1964). Additional Sources. Atkins, John Alfred, J. B. Priestley: the last of the sages, London: J. Calder; New York: Riverrun Press, 1981. Braine, John, J. B. Priestley, New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1979, 1978. Brome, Vincent, J.B. Priestley, London; New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Hamish Hamilton, 1988. Collins, Diana, Time and the Priestleys: the story of a friendship, Far Thrupp, Stroud, Gloucestershire: A. Sutton, 1994. Priestley, J. B. (John Boynton), English journey, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984. Priestley, J. B. (John Boynton), Instead of the trees: a final chapter of autobiography, New York: Stein and Day, 1977. □