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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 coming dramatist.--It
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 ...
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
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 ...
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’s games.
As Jack notes, Barrie appears to have fallen ‘from a position above criticism to one below it’ (Never land 6). But as interest in Barrie’s work declined, fascination with his life increased. The BBC documentary drama, The Lost Boys (1978), written by Andrew Birkin, and the subsequent publication of Birkin’s book, J.M. Barrie and the ...
A Tillyloss scandal / J.M. Barrie.
