“There is something quite improbable about how these famous writers started playing together, and all their characters are quite fantastical.”
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J. M. Barrie
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet was a British novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote several successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens, then to write Peter Pan, or The…
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culture · Scottish novelist and playwright (1860–1937) · writer · novelist · playwright · journalist · children's writer · librettist · screenwriter · television writer · film screenwriter · poet · also J. M. Barrie, James Matthew Barrie, J.M. Barrie, Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, James Barrie, JM Barrie
Born 9 May 1860 · Died 19 June 1937 · Q81796
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2026· 5 entries
“But when the game starts, everyone becomes a cricketer. Nothing matters other than what happens in those 22 yards.”
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“Writers are so bad about admitting when they are wrong.”
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“or would you like to have your tea first?”
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“He was an innocent—which is why he could write Peter Pan.”
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1960· 1 entry
By throwing himself in front of an Underground train at Sloane Square station
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1937· 6 entries
Died 1937-06-19.
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“Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.”
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“I'm not young enough to know everything.”
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“We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.”
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“The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.”
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“One's religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success.”
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1929· 1 entry
And is decorated with images of sites in Kirriemuir which held significant memories for Barrie: Kirriemuir Townhouse, Strathview, Window in Thrums, the statue of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens and the Barrie Cricket Pav
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1922· 1 entry
Delivered his celebrated Rectorial Address on Courage at St Andrews, and visited University College Dundee with Earl Haig to open its new playing fields, with Barrie bowling a few balls to Haig
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1921· 1 entry
With his friend, Rupert Buxton, at a known danger spot at Sandford Lock near Oxford, one month short of his 21st birthday
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1919· 1 entry
Was elected Rector of the University of St Andrews for a three-year term
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1912· 1 entry
Was supposed to be modelled upon old photographs of Michael dressed as the character
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1911· 1 entry
Barrie developed the Peter Pan play into the novel Peter and Wendy
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1910· 1 entry
Barrie claimed that they had recently been engaged to be married
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1909· 1 entry
Barrie sued for divorce on the grounds of infidelity; the divorce was granted in October 1909.
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1907· 1 entry
And "Uncle Jim" became even more involved with the Davies family, providing financial support to them
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1902· 1 entry
And serialised in the US in the same year in Scribner's Magazine
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1901· 2 entries
Invited the Davies family to Black Lake Cottage, where he produced an album of captioned photographs of the boys acting out a pirate adventure, entitled The Boy Castaways of Black Lake Island
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And 1902, he had back-to-back successes; Quality Street was about a respectable, responsible old maid who poses as her own flirtatious niece to try to win the attention of a former suitor returned from the war
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1900· 1 entry
The couple moved into a house directly overlooking the gardens at 100 Bayswater Road
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1897· 1 entry
Meeting George and Jack (and baby Peter) with their nurse (nanny) Mary Hodgson in London's Kensington Gardens
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1896· 1 entry
His agent Addison Bright persuaded him to meet with Broadway producer Charles Frohman, who became his financial backer and a close friend, as well
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1895· 1 entry
The Barries bought a house on Gloucester Road, in South Kensington
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1894· 1 entry
They married in Kirriemuir on 9 July 1894, shortly after Barrie recovered, and Mary retired from the stage.
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1891· 1 entry
Barrie joined the newly formed Authors Cricket Club and also played for its cricket team, the Authors XI, alongside Doyle, Wodehouse and Milne
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1887· 1 entry
Founded an amateur cricket team for friends of similarly limited playing ability, and named it the Allahakbarries under the mistaken belief that "Allah akbar" meant "Heaven help us" in Arabic, rather than "God is grea
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1860· 1 entry
Born 1860-05-09.
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