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Scottish journalist, playwright and children's book writer. J. M. Barrie became world famous with his play and story about Peter Pan (1904), the boy who lived in Never Land, had a war with Captain Hook, and would not grow up. The first name of Peter Pan was almost certainly taken from Peter Llewellyn Davies (1897-1960), one of the several Davies brothers that Barrie knew.
'You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.' (from Peter Pan, Egmont UK Limited, 2015, p. 40)
James Matthew Barrie was born in the Lowland village of Kirriemuir, in Forfarshire (now Angus). His father, David Barrie was a handloom weaver, and mother, Margaret Ogilvy, the daughter of a stonemason. They had ten children, and Barrie was the ninth. Jamie, as he was called, heard tales of pirates from his mother, who read her children adventure stories in
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Peter and Wendy
Book and play by J. M. Barrie
For the 2015 film adaptation, see Peter and Wendy (film).
"Peter Pan and Wendy" redirects here. For the 2023 film, see Peter Pan & Wendy.
| Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up | |
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1904 programme for original play | |
| Written by | J. M. Barrie |
| Date premiered | 27 December 1904 (1904-12-27) |
| Place premiered | Duke of York's Theatre, London |
| Original language | English |
Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, often known simply as Peter Pan, is a work by J. M. Barrie, in the form of a 1904 play and a 1911 novel titled Peter and Wendy. Both versions tell the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous little boy who can fly, and has many adventures on the island of Neverland that is inhabited by mermaids, fairies, Native Americans, and pirates. The Peter Pan stories also involve the characters Wendy Darling and her two brothers John and Michael, Peter's fairy Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, and
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Creating Neverland: The origins of J.M. Barrie’s indelible Peter Pan
David Barrie was The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up. In the winter of 1866, two days before his fourteenth birthday, the elder brother of J. M Barrie went skating. Accidentally colliding with another skater, he fell on the ice, fractured his skull and died. When news of the tragedy reached his mother, Margaret Barrie, she resolved to ‘get between death and her boy’. Of course, she failed, and David Barrie’s death overwhelmed the family. He had been his mother’s favourite, and she became obsessed with the boy who could never grow up. James Barrie remembered how he tried to fill the emotional void bygd dressing up in his older brother’s clothes. In a bestselling biography of his mother, he wrote that once, when he came into her room, she said, ‘“Is that you?” inom thought it was the dead boy she was speaking to, and inom said in a little, lonely röst, “No, it’s no’ him, it’s just me”.’
James Barrie was born in 1860 in the Angus