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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 ...
A Tillyloss scandal / J.M. Barrie.
As D.H. Lawrence noted in 1921, “J.M. [Barrie] has a fatal touch for those he loves. They die.” They die.” Barrie’s personal losses began when he was a child: His older brother, David ...
Barrie’s great-great nephew David Barrie is named after JM Barrie’s 14-year-old brother David, as was his grandfather. “My father knew him but he died well before I was born,” says the 66 ...
A TILLYLOSS SCANDAL is an unauthorized collection of Barrie stories and articles that had appeared in mostly-Scottish periodicals during the years 1887-1892; there was no corresponding English edition. Some of the pieces are quite amusing -- such as "Shutting a Map," a diatribe about the impossibility of re-folding a "pocket" map.
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 ...
