Festival at Farbridge

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Festival at Farbridge
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First edition
Author J.B. Priestley
LanguageEnglish
GenreComedy
Publisher Heinemann
Publication date
1951
Publication place United Kingdom
Media typePrint

Festival at Farbridge is a 1951 comic novel by the British writer J.B. Priestley. [1] A small town in the Midlands decides to hold its own event during the Festival of Britain.

The book was deliberately conceived of and timed as part of the Festival of Britain. [2] It "Memorably describ[es]" the smaller community activities that took place as part of the Festival. [3] The novel was a "flop". [2]

References

  1. ↑ Klein p.456
  2. 1 2 Kynaston, David (2010). Family Britain, 1951-1957. Bloomsbury. p. 10. ISBN   978-1-4088-0083-6 . Retrieved 21 September 2025.
  3. ↑ Hutton, Alexander (2020). "The 'Quite Ordinary Man' at the Pageant: History, Community and Local Identity in the 1951 Festival of Britain". In Bartie, Angela; Fleming, Linda; Freeman, Mark; Hutton, Alexander; Readman, Paul (eds.). Restaging the Past: Historical Pageants, Culture and Society in Modern Britain. UCL Press. p. 202. ISBN   978-1-78735-405-0 . Retrieved 21 September 2025.

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