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J B Priestly - An Inspector Calls

John Boynton Preistley wrote 'An Inspector Calls@ during one week in 1945. He was a Yorkshireman who wanted to comment on the key conflicts taking place in English society in 1945.

J B Preistley wrote sixteen novels and over forty plays in his lifetime and experianced much success. As a political social thinker, J B Preistley used lierature as a means of commenting on society and the lack of support he felt the poor had.

He was patriotic (passionatley love your country) socialist whose major issue was trying to better the lives of the poor. Preistley formed many of his opinions in th period 1911-1914 as worked as a clerk (junior office worker) in a Bradford wool form. He had ambitions to be a writer but wanted to gain life experiance, so avoided university (available to the rich) and went to work. He rea...

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