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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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 Production 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...
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...
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/.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...

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