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 Excerpt
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Rosamund Marriott Watson
She probably met the handsome Watson , a novelist who was, like her first husband, an Australian, in 1893 when he attended practices of the cricket team of which he and her second husband were...
Reception Mary Augusta Ward
MAW 's meticulous character study and tragic love story is sometimes considered her best novel. It was positively received by George Meredith , Sir J. M. Barrie , and Henry James. James wrote to her...
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.
60
Dedications Sarah Tytler
It was dedicated to J. M. Barrie , who was now famous as the author of Peter Pan.
Tytler, Sarah. Three Generations. J. Murray.
prelims
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...
Publishing Angela Thirkell
AT , in Australia and pressed for both money and occupation, began writing seriously for publication by placing An Interview with J. M. Barrie in The Forum (on the women's page).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Family and Intimate relationships Angela Thirkell
J. M. Barrie was her godfather.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production 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...
Friends, Associates Annie S. Swan
She also mentions a great many literary names. Among women writers whom she calls the stars of her generation were Mary Augusta Ward , Lucas Malet , Lucy Clifford , Sarah Grand , Violet Hunt
Publishing Annie S. Swan
Sir James Barrie selected ASS as the chief contributor to this new women's magazine.
Though library catalogues list her as editor, her autobiography says that Barrie selected her not as editor, a job she would...
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...
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 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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Timeline

1878: William Swan Sonnenschein and J. Archibald...

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1878

William Swan Sonnenschein and J. Archibald Allen formed a partnership in the publishing firm of Swan Sonnenschein and Allen , at 15 Paternoster Square, London.

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.