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.
Money had became tight for LCA
and her husband (though cushioned by their wealthy and generous extended families) when he joined up in the First World War, cutting off the income from the Bar which...
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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...
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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...
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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, p. ix - xii.
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It was...
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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).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Lady Cynthia Asquith
This article (written in two days) began a series in the Times entitled The Woman's View and signed A Correspondent. She received fifteen guineas for an article of 750 words, generally written in two...
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Lady Cynthia Asquith
LCA
's column for the Times and her articles elsewhere led naturally to further miscellaneous work for and about children. (Evelyn Waugh
was mistaken in his unshakable belief that she was the true author...
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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...
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Beryl Bainbridge
In 2003 BB
was at work on a detective novel currently titled Dear Brutus (a title borrowed from J. M. Barrie
, replacing the earlier The Might Have Been) and set in the 1970s...
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Lady Cynthia Asquith
LCA
's next book, Portrait of Barrie, blended two genres she had previously written, biography and personal memoir, in an account of her years as an employee of the famous playwright.
Cookman, Anthony Victor. “The Barrie Legend”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 2758, p. 791.
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Dorothy Brett
The Washington Post published a strange and hilariously wrong bulletin heralding DB
's apparently non-existent pretensions to writing plays, and her equally non-existent engagement to J. M. Barrie
.
“J. M. Barrie to Wed Again: Daughter of Lord Esher Said to be Be-trothed to Novelist”. The Washington Post, p. 4.
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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.
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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...
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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.
1901: The publication of George Douglas Brown's...
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1901
The publication of George Douglas Brown
's novel The House with the Green Shutters marked the first attack on the Scottish school of fiction that was afterwards known as Kailyard.
May 1926: Eighteen-year-old actress Peggy Ashcroft...
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May 1926
Eighteen-year-old actress Peggy Ashcroft
made her professional debut in J. M. Barrie
's Dear Brutus with the Birmingham Repertory Company, when another performer was transferred.
1947: James Barrie, great-nephew of playwright...
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1947
James Barrie
, great-nephew of playwright Sir James Barrie
, founded an imprint to publish popular books, among them Lady Cynthia Asquith
's diaries.
Texts
Barrie, Sir J. M. Auld Licht Idylls. Hodder and Stoughton, 1888.
Barrie, Sir J. M. Becky Sharp. 1891.
Barrie, Sir J. M. Dear Brutus. Hodder and Stoughton, 1922.
Barrie, Sir J. M. Letters of J.M. Barrie. Editor Meynell, Viola, Peter Davies, 1942.
Barrie, Sir J. M. Mary Rose. Hodder and Stoughton, 1924.
Barrie, Sir J. M. Peter Pan. Hodder and Stoughton, 1928.
Barrie, Sir J. M., and H. B. Marriott Watson. Richard Savage. Privately printed, 1891.
Barrie, Sir J. M. The Admirable Crichton. Hodder and Stoughton, 1914.
Barrie, Sir J. M. The Boy David. Peter Davies, 1938.
Barrie, Sir J. M. The Little White Bird. Hodder and Stoughton, 1902.
Barrie, Sir J. M. What Every Woman Knows. Hodder and Stoughton, 1918.
