Part of Birmingham's vibrant literary and artistic scene in the 1930s[1] that also included the poets W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and Henry Reed; novelist Henry Green, the sculptor Gordon Herickx and the Birmingham Surrealists;[2] the Birmingham Group shared little stylistic unity, but had a common interest in the realistic portrayal of working class scenes.
[3] The group was christened by the American critic Edward J. O'Brien, who published several of their short stories in journals he edited and assumed they all knew each other.
This became self-fulfilling, and for a while the group met weekly in a pub off Corporation Street.
[5] The Birmingham-based poet Louis MacNeice described how At this time, 1936, literary London was just beginning to recognise something called the Birmingham School of novelists.
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