The Good Companions The Good Companions The Good Companions is a novel by the English author J. B. Priestley. Written in 1929 (in Deal, Kent), it focuses on the trials and tribulations of a concert party in England between World War I and World War II. It is arguably Priestley's most famous novel, and the work which established him as a national figure. It won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was adapted twice into film. The novel is written in picaresque style, and opens with the middle aged, discontented Jess Oakroyd in the fictional Yorkshire town of Bruddersford. He opts to
The Travelling Companions The Travelling Companions The Travelling Companions is an 1862 oil-on-canvas painting by British artist Augustus Leopold Egg. It is held by Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, presented by the John Feeney Charitable Trust in 1956. The painting measures . It depicts two well-dressed women who are sitting facing each other in a cramped first-class railway carriage, like mirror images. The women may be sisters, or may represent two elements of the character of one woman. The women are dressed identically, in the same voluminous grey silk travelling clothes, with their hats identically placed on their laps. They are arranged symmetrically