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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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.
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Colles, Hester Janet. “A Gallery of Children”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1245, p. 804.
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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...
Family and Intimate relationships Lady Cynthia Asquith
In less than three months LCA lost in rapid succession her mother , her eldest (institutionalised) son, her patron J. M. Barrie , and her father : it was Barrie's death which seemed to distress her most.
Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton.
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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/.
Author summary Daisy Ashford
Daisy Ashford was an avid writer as a child. She became famous when she rediscovered a novella she wrote at the age of nine, The Young Visiters, and it was published with a preface...
Education Daisy Ashford
In the preface to Daisy's novel, The Young Visiters, J. M. Barrie describes the young DA as a girl who read everything that came her way, including, as the context amply proves, the grown-up...
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...
Literary responses Daisy Ashford
J. M. Barrie praised the liveliness of the writing: How incomparably, for instance, the authoress dives into her story at once. How cunningly throughout she keeps us on the hooks of suspense, jumping to Mr...

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