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.
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.
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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...
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...
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
,...
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...
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.
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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 Production
Dodie Smith
While living in the United States, DS
contributed to a number of Hollywood screenplays. In 1944 she collaborated on The Uninvited, a classic haunted house story adapted from a novel by Dorothy Macardle
(for...
