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English Journey

English Journey
J.B. Priestley

English Journey is an account by J. B. Priestley of his travels in England which was published in 1934.

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“I wished I had been born early enough to have been called a Little Englander. It was a term of sneering abuse, but I should be delighted to accept it as a description of myself. That little sounds the right note of affection. It is little England I love.”

J.B. Priestley book English Journey

English Journey, 1934. Reprinted in Judy Giles and Tim Middleton Writing Englishness: An Introductory Sourcebook,Routledge, 2003 (p. 26).

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