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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 / J.M. Barrie.
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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 ...
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 ...
David is Patron of the JM Barrie Literary Society, which launched in 2017 to bring Barrie out of “Peter Pan’s shadow” and encourage readers to appreciate the full breadth of his genius.
Barrie came to London as a freelance writer in 1885. His early fiction, Auld Licht Idylls (1888) and A Window in Thrums (1889), were inspired by his youth in Kirriemuir. After publishing a biography of his mother Margaret Ogilvy and the autobiographical novel Sentimental Tommy, about a boy living in a dream world (1896), he concentrated on writing plays.
