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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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, 1958. 34 |
| 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... |
| Occupation | Kate Parry Frye | |
| 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... |
| 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, 1990. 131-2 |
| 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
,... |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Margaret Kennedy | The novel's initial favourable reviews came from an earlier generation of authors, including George Moore
, A. E. Housman
, Thomas Hardy
, Arnold Bennett
, J. M. Barrie
, and H. G. Wells
... |
| Textual Production | Viola Meynell | VM
's selection of the Letters of J. M. Barrie appeared at the beginning of this month. MacKenzie, Raymond N. A Critical Biography of English Novelist Viola Meynell, 1885-1956. Edwin Mellen, 2002. 299 |
| 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 | 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Madeleine Lucette Ryley | Ten years before MLR
's drama, another sharing its title and subject matter was the first adult play by J. M. Barrie
to reach the stage. MLR originally gave her script to Nat Goodwin
... |
| 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. |
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