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FROM THE PAGES OFPETER PAN

All children, except one, grow up.

(page 7)

You see, children know such a lot now, they soon dont believe in fairies, and every time a child says, I dont believe in fairies, there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

(page 29)

Wake up, she cried, Peter Pan has come and he is to teach us to fly.

(page 32)

In the midst of them, the blackest and largest jewel in that dark setting, reclined James Hook, or as he wrote himself, Jas. Hook, of whom it is said he was the only man that the Sea-Cook feared. He lay at his ease in a rough chariot drawn and propelled by his men, and instead of a right hand he had the iron hook with which ever and anon he encouraged them to increase their pace.

(page 52)

I want their captain, Peter Pan. Twas he cut off my arm. He brandished the hook threateningly. Ive waited long to shake his hand with this. Oh, Ill tear him!

(page 56)

Then all went on their knees, and holding out their arms cried, 0 Wendy lady, be our mother.

(page 68)

If you believe, he shouted to them, clap your hands; dont let Tink die.

(page 118)

Then he sought to close and give the quietus with his iron hook, which all this time had been pawing the air; but Peter doubled under it and, lunging fiercely, pierced him in the ribs. At sight of his own blood, whose peculiar colour, you remember, was offensive to him, the sword fell from Hooks hand, and he was at Peters mercy.

(page 135)

The last thing he ever said to me was, Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.

(page 154)

J. M. BARRIE

James Matthew Barrie was born on May 9, 1860, in Kirriemuir, Scotland, the ninth child and third and youngest son of David Barrie, a handloom weaver, and Margaret Ogilvy, who, following Scottish tradition, kept her maiden name among friends and family. In January 1867, when Barrie was six years old, his older brother David died in a skating accident on the eve of his fourteenth birthday, an event that haunted Barrie for the rest of his life.

Barries love of the theater bloomed at Dumfries Academy, which he attended for five years, beginning at age thirteen. He earned his master of arts degree in English literature from Edinburgh University in 1882. The next year he became leader-writer and sub-editor for the Nottingham Journal. In 1885 he moved to London, where he worked as a free-lance journalist; he self-published his first novel, Better Dead, two years later. With his second book, a collection of sketches titled Auld Licht Idylls (1888), he achieved recognition as a writer, and his reputation increased with the publication the same year of the novel When a Mans Single. In 1889 his A Window in Thrums appeared, and in 1891 he published the popular novel The Little Minister.

Barrie had his first commercial theatrical success with Walker, London (1892). Two years later he married Mary Ansell, an actress who had performed one of the plays leading roles. In 1896 two of Barries works were published: the novel Sentimental Tommy (its sequel, Tommy and Grizel, appeared in 1900), and Margaret Ogilvy, a memoir of his mother. Barrie first met George and Sylvia Llewelyn Davies and their sons George and Jack in 1897. The authors play-acting with the boys was the principal source of material for his play Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up.

Barries 1902 novel The Little White Bird contains an early version of Peter Pan and describes Peters life as a baby. Over the course of the next nine years, Barrie refined Peter Pan in various stage productions and publications. The play version of the story opened at the Duke of Yorks Theatre on December 27,1904. Two years later, Barrie extracted six chapters from The Little White Bird that he published as Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, and in 1911 he published the novel Peter and Wendy; longer than Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, this book is now known simply as Peter Pan.

Barrie and his wife divorced in 1909. He never remarried, but the next year he acquired a family when Sylvia, the mother of the Llewelyn Davies boys, died (her husband had died in 1907) and Barrie adopted her sons (there were now five boys). In 1915 George, the oldest boy, was killed in World War I during an advance on the Germans. The same year Charles Frohman, Barries producer, went down on the passenger ship the Lusitania when a German torpedo hit it. Nevertheless, the next six years were fairly productive for Barrie as a writer and happy for him as a father, until Michael, the fourth of the brothers, drowned while swimming in a millpond with a friend. Barrie never recovered from Michaels death, which effectively brought his creative output to a halt.

In addition to the play Peter Pan, Barrie had a string of hits in the theater: the theatrical version of The Little Minister (1897), Quality Street and The Admirable Crichton (both 1902), and What Every Woman Knows (1908). A Kiss for Cinderella opened in 1916 and was often revived in London around Christmastime. Two fantasy plays followed: In Dear Brutus (1917), a group of people encounter their alternate destinies when they enter a magic forest, and in Mary Rose (1920), a woman dies young and returns to her family years later as a ghost, unable to recognize her now aged son. Barries last play, The Boy David, opened in 1936 and was not successful. On June 19, 1937, J. M. Barrie died. He was buried with his family in Kirriemuir cemetery.

THE WORLD OF J. M. BARRIE AND PETER PAN

1860	James Matthew Barrie is born on May 9 in Kirriemuir, Scotland. The third son of seven surviving children, James shares two rooms with his entire family. The cottage also houses the handlooming tools with which his father, David, earns a living. The countryside surrounding Kirriemuir features breathtaking glens and stark mountains, and lush vegetation, lochs, and castles abound; the setting will influence Barries later writings.
1865	Lewis CarroUs Alices Adventures in Wonderland is published.
1867	Barries brother David is killed in a skating accident. Margaret Ogilvy, Barries mother, never recovers from the loss of her second son, and the death will haunt James for the rest of his life.
1868	James leaves home to live with his brother Alexander and attend Glasgow Academy, where Alexander teaches classics.
1871	When Alexander leaves Glasgow, James moves with the rest of the family to the town of Forfar, where he enrolls in Forfar Academy. Lewis Carrolls Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There is published.
1872	George Eliots Middlemarch is published.
1873	James again moves in with his brother to attend Dumfries Academy in Dumfries, in southwestern Scotland; Alexander is the inspector of schools for the district. James will study at the academy for five years. Jules Vernes

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