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A Tillyloss scandal.--How Gavin Birse put it to Mag Lowrie.--Life in a country manse.--Dite Deuchars.--The minister's gown.--The captain of the school.--A powerful drug.--Every man his own doctor.--Shutting a map; a note of warning.--An invalid in lodgings.--The mystery of time-tables.--Mending the clock.--The biggest box in the world.--The ...
A Tillyloss scandal.--How Gavin Birse put it to Mag Lownie.--Life in a country manse.--Dite Deuchars.--The minister's gown.--The captain of the school.--A powerful drug.--Every man his own doctor.--Shutting a map.--A note of warning.--An invalid in lodgings.--The mystery of time-tables.--Mending the clock.--The biggest box in the world.--The ...
John died of lung disease in 1959, at age 65. Peter, who called Peter Pan “that terrible masterpiece,” died of suicide in 1960, at age 63. Only Nicholas, the one who called Barrie “an ...
A Tillyloss scandal / J.M. Barrie.
J. M. Barrie. Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (/ ˈbæri /; 9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote several successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who ...
In the second part of our feature celebrating JM Barrie’s life and legacy, Gayle Ritchie explores the “dark side” of the Kirriemuir-born playwright and his work beyond Peter Pan
‘Barrie has a fatal touch for those he loves. They die.’ D. H. Lawrence. This fascinating and disturbing book unravels the subtle and deadly mixture of manipulation, fantasy and control with which J. M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan, entangled a number of child victims. The most famous examples are the orphaned Llewellyn-Davies boys, but […]
