Lisa Chaney - Hide-and-Seek with Angels: The Life of J.M. Barrie

A LIFE OF J. M. BARRIE

Lisa Chaney

HUTCHINSON
LONDON

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First published by Hutchinson in 2005

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Copyright Lisa Chaney 2005

Lisa Chaney has asserted her right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work

Extracts from Peter Pan Works by J. M. Barrie 1937 Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London

Endpaper illustrations: Costume designs for Peter Pan by William Nicholson reproduced by permission of Elizabeth Banks.

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For Jessica and Olivia
So singular in each particular
and for Paul, James,
Anna and Kate

Also by Lisa Chaney

ELIZABETH DAVID

First section

1. Clova, Kirriemuir (Courtesy of Malcolm McBeath)

2. Kirriemuir (By permission of Angus Council Cultural Services)

3. The Tenements, Kirriemuir (Courtesy of Tanya Sweeton)

4. Jamie Barrie (Courtesy of Tanya Sweeton)

5. Jamie at school (From J. A. Hammertons Barrie: The Story of a Genius)

6. Burnbank Terrace in Glasgow (From J. A. Hammertons Barrie: The Story of a Genius)

7. Margaret Barrie in old age with James (Courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University)

8. Barries older brother Alick, and his wife Mary (Courtesy of Tanya Sweeton)

9. Strath View, Kirriemuir (Courtesy of Tanya Sweeton)

10. Barries father, David (From J. A. Hammertons Barrie: The Story of a Genius)

11. Barries mother and sister (Courtesy of Tanya Sweeton)

12. Barrie in the late 1890s by Frederick Hollyer (Courtesy of Laura Duguid)

13. Mary Barrie, two years after her marriage (Courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University)

14. J.M. Barrie (Photographs 1418 are courtesy of Laura Duguid)

15. Mary Barrie

16. Sylvia Llewelyn Davies

17. Arthur Llewelyn Davies

18. Mary Hodgson

19. Charles Frohman ( Getty Images)

20. Sylvia Llewelyn Davies and her son George (Courtesy of Laura Duguid)

21. Leinster Corner (From J. A. Hammertons Barrie: The Story of a Genius)

22. The Childs Map of Kensington Gardens by H. J. Ford (From The Little White Bird)

23. The Llewelyn Davies boys as The Boy Castaways of Black Lake Island (Courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University)

24. Bevil and Porthos, the Barries St. Bernard (Courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University)

Second section

Pictures 1, 3 and 4: Costume designs for Peter Pan by William Nicholson (Reproduced by permission of Elizabeth Banks. Images by courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University)

2. Captain Hook illustration from The Peter Pan Picture Book ( Mary Evans Picture Library)

5. William Nicholsons study of Barrie (Reproduced by permission of Elizabeth Banks. Image courtesy of the National Gallery of Scotland)

6. One of Barries notebooks (Reproduced by permission of the late Michael Asquith, and Vivien Asquith. Image by courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University)

7. Nina Boucicault ( Getty Images)

8. Hilda Trevelyan (From Fifty Years of Peter Pan by Roger Lancelyn Green)

9. Gladys Cooper by Sasha (From Fifty Years of Peter Pan by Roger Lancelyn Green)

10. Eva la Gallienne (From Fifty Years of Peter Pan by Roger Lancelyn Green)

11. Eileen Vanbrugh (Courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University)

12. Peter Pan statue, Kensington Gardens ( Mary Evans Picture Library)

13. George, Peter, Nico, and Michael Llewelyn Davies, the Duchess of Sutherland and Barrie (Courtesy of Laura Duguid)

14. J. M. Barrie by Sir John Lavery (By permission of Felix Rosentiels Widow and Son Ltd, London on behalf of the Estate of Sir John Lavery. Image courtesy of National Gallery of Scotland)

15. The London apartment at Adelphi Terrace House (Courtesy of Laura Duguid)

16. Captain Scott ( Getty Images)

17. Lady Cynthia Wemyss wedding (By permission of Roland Asquith)

18. Lady Cynthia Asquith (By permission of Roland Asquith)

19. Arthur Quiller-Couch ( Getty Images)

20. George Meredith ( Getty Images)

21. Thomas Hardy ( Getty Images)

22. Charles Turley Smith (From Dear Turley edited by Eleanor Adlard)

23. Arthur Conan Doyle ( Getty Images)

24. Ellen Terry ( Getty Images)

25. H.G. Wells ( Getty Images)

26. Barrie in his inglenook by Peter Scott (Image by courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

27. E.V. Lucas with his wife and daughter (From Dear Turley edited by Eleanor Adlard)

28. The last Allahakbarries cricket match (From E.V. Lucas by Audrey Lucas)

29. Barrie in old age by Hollyer

Every effort has been made to contact copyright holders. The publishers will be glad to make good in future editions any errors or omissions brought to their attention.

The Barrie and Ogilvy families

In a lightning strike my computer was destroyed and with it apparently half this book requiring hours of skilled effort way beyond my capabilities to recover the hard drive. On this, and several other demanding occasions, Barries warning, May God blast anyone who writes a biography of me, came to mind. Without the patience, goodwill and humour shown me by those involved in the books making, I might have admitted superstition and abandoned the task.