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J.M. Barrie

Born

in Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland

May 09, 1860

Died

June 19, 1937

Genre

Children's, Fiction, Drama

Influences

Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle,Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Carlyle...more

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James Matthew Barrie was a Scottish 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.

The son of a weaver, Barrie studied at the University of Edinburgh. He took up journalism for a newspaper in Nottingham and contributed to various London journals before moving there in 1885. His early Auld Licht Idylls (1889) and A Window in Thrums (1889) contain fictional sketches of Scottish life representative of the Kailyard school. The publication of The Little Minister (1891) established his reputation as a novelist. During the next decade, Barrie continued to write novels, but gradually, his interest turnJames Matthew Barrie was a Sco

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JM Barrie

James Matthew Barrie was born in the small town of Kirriemuir, Scotland on 9 May 1860.

He was the ninth child of 10 born to David Barrie, a hand-loom weaver and his wife, Margaret Ogilvy.

Tragedy struck when Barrie's older brother, David, died after a skating accident just before his 14th birthday.

In a desperate attempt to console his grieving mother, young James tried to take David's place, hoping to earn her affection by becoming the son she’d lost.

Barrie's inspiration for eternal childhood

While his mother found some comfort in the idea that David would always be a boy, Barrie found inspiration.

The idea of eternal childhood stuck with Barrie, inspiring his famous play, Peter Pan.

Arthur Llewelyn Davis and his sons

Barrie's friendship with the Llewelyn Davies boys

After studying at the University of Edinburgh, Barrie moved to London. There he met the three eldest Llewelyn Davies boys, George, five, Jack, four, and baby Peter in Kensington Gardens in 1897. Later, their brothers Michael and Nico were born. Barrie forme

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Curated for over 40 years by Andrew Birkin, the main content of this database is research material he gathered in the course of writing his 1978 BBC television series The Lost Boys, as well as his later biography, J M Barrie and the Lost Boys (Yale University Press), while subsequent items were acquired through donation or purchase from numerous sources.

In addition to original photographs and documents, all scanned prior to donating them to Great Ormond Street Hospital in 2003, the database also contains hundreds of audio clips, taken from conversations recorded by Andrew in the 1970s with Nico Llewelyn Davies, Jack's widow Gerrie, Daphne du Maurier, Lord Boothby and many others.