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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 ...
J. M. Barrie, the boys’ foster father John Llewelyn-Davies died in 1959, at the age of 65. Peter Davis, who was plagued by his lifelong identification as ‘the real Peter Pan’ and the fact that everywhere he went he was referred to as Peter Pan, committed suicide by throwing himself under a Tube train in 1960.
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 work beyond Peter Pan ...
From Kirriemuir to Neverland: The bitter-sweet story of how J.M. Barrie created Peter Pan. 9 May 2017. The Scottish novelist and playwright J.M. Barrie was born on 9 May in 1860. His...
J.M. Barrie penned The Reconstruction of the Crime with E.V. Lucas — but the play was never performed in his lifetime or the 80 years since. Now, the tale of mistaken identity is getting...
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 their tomboy cousin, Daphne du Maurier, was also profoundly affected by Barrie ...
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...
