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After his death, Barrie’s remains were interred back where Pan began in his Angus home-town of Kirriemuir next to the graves of his mother and his brother. Latest features from BBC Scotland
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notion of ‘playing the game’. Barrie’s reverence for both games and storytelling is a manifestation of his desire to contest the devaluation of play consequent on 1 For the biographical information in this chapter I am indebted to Lisa Chaney’s excellent Hide-and-Seek with Angels: A Life of J.M. Barrie.
May 8, 2020 · 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 […]
Jul 27, 2017 · About the author (2017) James Matthew Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan, was born on May 9, 1860, in Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland. His idyllic boyhood was shattered by his brother's death when Barrie was six. His own grief and that of his mother influenced the rest of his life. Through his work, he sought to recapture the carefree joy of his ...
