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.
J. M. Barrie
greatly admired a one-act play by EHD
, presumably this one. Several reviewers found novelty and promise in The Toyshop of the Heart.
Fehlbaum, Valerie. Ella Hepworth Dixon: the Story of a Modern Woman. Ashgate.
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Literary responses
Lady Cynthia Asquith
The Times Literary Supplement gave this book a respectful single-paragraph review under the category Education. It may have been Asquith's social standing as much as her talent which continued to provide her with reviews of...
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...
Literary responses
Ethel Wilson
Negative reviews seemed to repeat Macmillan
's original worry that the collection was half-cooked. Aunt Topaz was characterized by the Canadian Forum as a terrible bore, whom the reviewer found almost as tiresome to...
Intertextuality and Influence
Willa Cather
Though Cather admired Barrie
in general, she puts forward her Tommy (baptised Theodosia), a tomboyish and business-minded young woman, to counter his sensitive and artistic young man.
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.
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, No. 4, pp. 468-85.
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Cather, in fact, portrays non-heteronormative sexualities through...
Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth von Arnim
She adapted her novel on the advice of her friend the writer J. M. Barrie
, after an adaptation made by somebody else had failed in New York. Her play was successful on stage...
Intertextuality and Influence
Sarah Tytler
In The Realistic Novel as Represented by J. M. Barrie, published in Atalanta, ST
confirmed her alliance with the sensibilities of the Kailyard school of Scottish fiction.
“19th-Century Masterfile: A Paratext Resource”. Paratext Electronic Publishing.
Tytler, Sarah. “The Realistic Novel as Represented by J. M. Barrie”. Atalanta, Vol.
7
, pp. 60-4.
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Intertextuality and Influence
Beryl Bainbridge
An Awfully Big Adventure is set in 1950. Its title is the phrase which J. M. Barrie
's Peter Pan uses about death. Its protagonist, Stella, works for a Liverpool repertory company as BB
had...
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...
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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Friends, Associates
Katharine Tynan
Living in a suburb of London, KT
frequented the heart of English literary culture. She had already joined London's Irish Literary Society
, and was later appointed its Honorary Vice-President.
Tynan, Katharine. The Years of the Shadow. Constable.
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Among other literary figures...
Family and Intimate relationships
Dorothy Brett
DB
's younger sister, Sylvia, later Lady Brooke
, born in 1885, is herself of no minor literary significance. She authored numerous works including two autobiographies, romance novels, and short stories, and claimed J. M. Barrie
Family and Intimate relationships
Lady Cynthia Asquith
LCA
's other sons, after John, were Michael, born on 25 July 1914 at Sussex Place, and Simon
, born on 20 August 1919 (after she had planned on having a girl to be...