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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Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
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/.
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...
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.
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, pp. 60-4.
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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.
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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...
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...
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...
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...

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