Sir J. M. Barrie

09 May 1860 - 19 June 1937

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.

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Performance of text	Madeleine Lucette Ryley	From 4 October to 20 November 1900 MLR 's comediettaRealism (her second one-act work) acted as curtain-raiser to J. M. Barrie 's The Wedding Guest at the Garrick Theatre in London. Engle, Sherry D. New Women Dramatists in America, 1890-1920. Palgrave MacMilan, 2007. 76-7 OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. The...
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 ,...
Author summary	Daisy Ashford	Daisy Ashford was an avid writer as a child. She became famous when she rediscovered a novella she wrote at the age of nine, The Young Visiters, and it was published with a preface...
Publishing	Annie S. Swan	Sir James Barrie selected ASS as the chief contributor to this new women's magazine. Though library catalogues list her as editor, her autobiography says that Barrie selected her not as editor, a job she would...
Publishing	Lady Cynthia Asquith	She was persuaded to write these memoirs by Jimmie or James Barrie , nephew of her late employer Sir James Barrie , as a text for his recently-launched publishing firm . Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Publishing	Angela Thirkell	AT , in Australia and pressed for both money and occupation, began writing seriously for publication by placing An Interview with J. M. Barrie in The Forum (on the women's page). Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Reception	Mary Augusta Ward	MAW 's meticulous character study and tragic love story is sometimes considered her best novel. It was positively received by George Meredith , Sir J. M. Barrie , and Henry James. James wrote to her...
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...
Textual Features	Madeleine Lucette Ryley	Mice and Men is about a male middle-aged guardian who falls in love with his ward, a girl. This situation had already been seen on stage, and critics likened the play to earlier versions of...
Textual Features	Winifred Peck	The story opens with a young man returning from the First World War and ends with young people returning from the second. At the outset seventeen-year-old Miranda Rae, living in Devon with her family, receives...
Textual Features	Lady Cynthia Asquith	Her authors are mostly well-known: Hardy , Barrie , Sir Henry Newbolt , Hilaire Belloc , Hugh Lofting , and Walter de la Mare , apart from two stories by herself. Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton, 1987. 286 Colles, Hester Janet. “A Gallery of Children”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1245, 26 Nov. 1925, p. 804. 804 Sales in...
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...
Textual Features	Jean Ingelow	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	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 ,...
Textual Production	Josephine Tey	Daviot wrote this play in 1936, and sent the script to John Gielgud , who liked [it] very much except for the last act, but this she was not willing to change. Gielgud, Sir John, and Josephine Tey. “Foreword”. Plays by Gordon Daviot, Peter Davies, 1953–1954, p. ix - xii. ix It was...

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