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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 Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | 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 Cathers Tommy, The Unsentimental and J. M. Barries Sentimental TommyWomens Writing, Vol. 18 , No. 4, Nov. 2011, pp. 468-85. 468 |
| 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 Cathers Tommy, The Unsentimental and J. M. Barries Sentimental TommyWomens Writing, Vol. 18 , No. 4, Nov. 2011, pp. 468-85. 469 |
| Textual Features | A. S. Byatt | The author at the heart of this story is a children's writer, Olive Wellwood, who is married to a wealthy banker and lives in a Kentish farmhouse strangely called Todefright. The actual Edith Nesbit
,... |
| Textual Production | 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, 12 July 1910, p. 4. |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| Textual Production | 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... |
| 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... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Lady Cynthia Asquith | 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... |
| Textual Production | 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 sessions of... |
| Textual Production | 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... |
| 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... |
| Textual Features | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Her authors are mostly well-known: Hardy
, Barrie
, Sir Henry Newbolt
, Hilaire Belloc
, Hugh Lofting
, and Walter de la Mare
, apart from two stories by herself. Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton, 1987. 286 Colles, Hester Janet. “A Gallery of Children”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1245, 26 Nov. 1925, p. 804. 804 |
| Publishing | Lady Cynthia Asquith | She was persuaded to write these memoirs by Jimmie or James Barrie
, nephew of her late employer Sir James Barrie
, as a text for his recently-launched publishing firm
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Employer | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Having much enjoyed nursing, LCA
did her first day as private secretary to the writer J. M. Barrie
, for a promised salary of four or five hundred pounds a year (which, however, proved to... |
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