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It’s remarkably easy to recast Barrie’s “gay and innocent and heartless” Peter as a villain, and just as easy to reimagine Captain Hook — the former Eton student who is obsessed with ...
JM Barrie created the childhood hero Peter Pan, but a new book reveals the lengths the author went to in order to find his own 'lost boys'. The boys - five in all, eventually - were the sons of...
May 8 2020, 12:00pm. JM Barrie. 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...
J.M. Barrie took this photo of Sylvia Llewelyn Davies in 1898. She was the mother of the five boys who inspired Barrie to write his story about “Peter Pan.” However, it seemed that the tragedies for the Llewelyn Davies family would never come to an end, as in 1915 another misfortune struck them.
Peter Pan made his first appearance in The Little White Bird, Barrie’s thinly veiled novel about George Llewelyn Davies that, today, with our sensitivity to sexual predators, has a creepy tone...
The stories of pirates and fairies and boys who never grew up that Barrie told the children were transposed to the nearest wild space – the green, leafy prosperity of Kensington Gardens – with ...
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.
