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 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...
Textual Production 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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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, p. 4.
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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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 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&gt”;. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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, No. 4, pp. 468-85.
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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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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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