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Sir J. M. Barrie
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Standard Name: Barrie, Sir J. M.
Used Form: Sir James Barrie
Used Form: Sir James Matthew Barrie
SJMB
began his career in the late nineteenth century as a journalist, then moved to short stories, then novels, then plays. Those of his plays which survive in the repertoire, for professionals or amateurs, all involve departures from actuality, and purposeful suspension of the laws of space and time. Far and away the most famous, the basis of Barrie's continuing fame, is the adult play which became a children's classic, Peter Pan.
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Employer | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Having much enjoyed nursing, LCA
did her first day as private secretary to the writer J. M. Barrie
, for a promised salary of four or five hundred pounds a year (which, however, proved to... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Cynthia Asquith | |
| Textual Production | Lady Cynthia Asquith | LCA
's next book, Portrait of Barrie, blended two genres she had previously written, biography and personal memoir, in an account of her years as an employee of the famous playwright. Cookman, Anthony Victor. “The Barrie Legend”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 2758, p. 791. 791 |
| Residence | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Though Clouds was rich in memories for LCA
, she actually grew up in Stanway House, north-east of Winchcombe in Gloucestershire. This was, she wrote, my very own home—the core of the world so... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Cynthia Asquith | |
| Travel | Lady Cynthia Asquith | From 1921 onwards, she and her children spent every August in possession of Stanway, a holiday funded by Barrie
, who stayed with them and paid rent for them to LCA
's mother, who... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Beryl Bainbridge | An Awfully Big Adventure is set in 1950. Its title is the phrase which J. M. Barrie
's Peter Pan uses about death. Its protagonist, Stella, works for a Liverpool repertory company as BB
had... |
| Textual Production | Beryl Bainbridge | In 2003 BB
was at work on a detective novel currently titled Dear Brutus (a title borrowed from J. M. Barrie
, replacing the earlier The Might Have Been) and set in the 1970s... |
| Textual Production | Dorothy Brett | The Washington Post published a strange and hilariously wrong bulletin heralding DB
's apparently non-existent pretensions to writing plays, and her equally non-existent engagement to J. M. Barrie
. “J. M. Barrie to Wed Again: Daughter of Lord Esher Said to be Be-trothed to Novelist”. The Washington Post, p. 4. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Brett | DB
's younger sister, Sylvia, later Lady Brooke
, born in 1885, is herself of no minor literary significance. She authored numerous works including two autobiographies, romance novels, and short stories, and claimed J. M. Barrie |
| Textual Features | A. S. Byatt | The author at the heart of this story is a children's writer, Olive Wellwood, who is married to a wealthy banker and lives in a Kentish farmhouse strangely called Todefright. The actual Edith Nesbit
,... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Willa Cather | Though Cather admired Barrie
in general, she puts forward her Tommy (baptised Theodosia), a tomboyish and business-minded young woman, to counter his sensitive and artistic young man. Abate, Michelle Ann. “Constructing Modernist Lesbian Affect from Late Victorian Masculine Emotionalism: Willa Cather’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="a">Tommy, The Unsentimental</span> and J. M. Barrie’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Sentimental Tommy</span>”;. Women’s Writing, Vol. 18 , No. 4, pp. 468-85. 469 |
| Textual Production | Willa Cather | Six months after J. M. Barrie
's novel Sentimental Tommy began to appear serially in Scribner's Magazine, WC
published in the Home Monthly her very short (ten-page) story entitled Tommy, The Unsentimental. Abate, Michelle Ann. “Constructing Modernist Lesbian Affect from Late Victorian Masculine Emotionalism: Willa Cather’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="a">Tommy, The Unsentimental</span> and J. M. Barrie’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Sentimental Tommy</span>”;. Women’s Writing, Vol. 18 , No. 4, pp. 468-85. 468 |
| Textual Production | Richmal Crompton | The title implies opposition to Sir J. M. Barrie
's immensely popular Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up, 1904. RC
published her early stories using the surname Crompton rather than... |
| Literary responses | Ella Hepworth Dixon | J. M. Barrie
greatly admired a one-act play by EHD
, presumably this one. Several reviewers found novelty and promise in The Toyshop of the Heart. Fehlbaum, Valerie. Ella Hepworth Dixon: the Story of a Modern Woman. Ashgate. 150, 161 |
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