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.

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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...
Occupation Lady Cynthia Asquith
During the war LCA received the last of three successive offers of significant acting roles, despite her total lack of dramatic training. Towards Christmas 1909 she had taken part in a charity production at the...
Friends, Associates Lady Cynthia Asquith
As well as her close relationships with Angela Thirkell and Barrie , LCA built a significant friendship with the novelist D. H. Lawrence (who has been seen as drawing her portrait in The Blind Man...
Family and Intimate relationships Lady Cynthia Asquith
She had a romantic friendship during the years 1918 and 1919 with Desmond MacCarthy , who was less than ten years her senior and a member of the Bloomsbury group.
Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton.
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MacCarthy, however, then...
Family and Intimate relationships Lady Cynthia Asquith
Barrie was a famous writer making huge sums of money when LCA met him. He was about the age of her father, had been unsuccessfully married, and doted on the idea of motherhood and on...
Textual Production Daisy Ashford
DA 's juvenile novella The Young Visiters (written in 1890, when she was just nine years old) was published by Chatto and Windus in London, with a preface by J. M. Barrie (author of Peter Pan).
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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...
Education Daisy Ashford
In the preface to Daisy's novel, The Young Visiters, J. M. Barrie describes the young DA as a girl who read everything that came her way, including, as the context amply proves, the grown-up...
Textual Production Daisy Ashford
The preface by J. M. Barrie was a mixed blessing since the novella was widely rumoured to have actually been written by Barrie.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Bolin, Alice. “Daring Daisy Ashford, the Greatest Ever Nine-Year-Old Novelist”. The Paris Review.
Many editions have been published, both in print and online, since 1919...
Literary responses Daisy Ashford
J. M. Barrie praised the liveliness of the writing: How incomparably, for instance, the authoress dives into her story at once. How cunningly throughout she keeps us on the hooks of suspense, jumping to Mr...

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