Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
In the fantastic style rather like that of Lewis Carroll
(whose first Alice book appeared in 1865), JI
abandons her formerly didactic tone and presents a whimsical world of imagination inhabited by fairies, gypsies, and...
Textual Features
Elizabeth Jane Howard
The play presents a woman torn between marriage and her career as a dancer. Influenced probably by J. M. Barrie
and J. B. Priestley
, it presents two alternative outcomes, with the second act tracing...
Occupation
Cicely Hamilton
This role led to several more in productions of plays by George Meredith
, J. M. Barrie
, and others.
Whitelaw, Lis. The Life and Rebellious Times of Cicely Hamilton. Women’s Press.
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Performance of text
Cicely Hamilton
An earlier version involving tableaux had been given at Caxton Hall in February this year. The Scala production was sponsored by the Actresses' Franchise League
. The cast included Ellen Terry
, Lillah McCarthy
,...
Occupation
Kate Parry Frye
After seeing Pinero
's Trelawney of the Wells, KPF
recorded in her diary her longing, if only she had talent, to have a try at the one profession I love the best—going on...
Occupation
Kate Parry Frye
KPF
was often on tour while she was an actress, just as she was later as a suffrage organizer. She toured in plays by J. M. Barrie
in 1903 and again in August and September...
Friends, Associates
George Egerton
After the success of her Keynotes, GE
became acquainted with the literary and intellectual world. Among her new acquaintances she expressed admiration for Havelock Ellis
but called W. B. Yeats
a poseur.
Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press.
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Family and Intimate relationships
George Egerton
Bright first had a column in the Evening Sun, and later wrote for the Daily Express and the Pall Mall Gazette. He was sub-editor at the Evening Sun and night-editor at the Daily...
Family and Intimate relationships
Daphne Du Maurier
DDM
's aunt Sylvia du Maurier
(later Sylvia Llewelyn Davies) became a friend of James Barrie
, whose Peter Pan was in part inspired by her five small sons.
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.
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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...
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.
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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.
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Cather, in fact, portrays non-heteronormative sexualities through...
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
,...