“Barrie was a wounded creature, from his earliest youth, and his probing of that wound is what makes PETER PAN so enduringly painful to read […] The tensions are bald and excruciating.”
A 🎂 🧵 for JM Barrie (1860–1937), born #OTD, 9 May
1/9
#Scottish #literature #PeterPan #KidLit #ChildrensLiterature
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/11/22/lost-boys
“Barrie’s book may ostensibly be about the boys’ eternal childhood, but it’s the mother figures who are the scaffolding upon which his story rests.”
– Liz Michalski, author of DARLING GIRL, on the mother figures in PETER PAN
2/9
#Scottish #literature #PeterPan #KidLit #ChildrensLiterature
https://lithub.com/empathizing-with-the-mother-figures-of-peter-pan/
“To be born is to be wrecked on an island.”
From the true-life adventure of Alexander Selkirk, through Daniel Defoe, RM Ballantyne, & Robert Louis Stevenson, a chain of real & fictional islands leads John Pielmeier – author of HOOK’S TALE – to JM Barrie’s Neverland…
3/9
#Scottish #literature #PeterPan #KidLit #ChildrensLiterature
https://lithub.com/visiting-the-actual-island-that-inspired-neverland/
“James Hook, the pirate captain, was a great Etonian, but not a good one…”
—Brian Till explores “The Secret History of Captain Hook” in The Atlantic
🖼️ : Alice B. Woodward (1862–1951), “Right into the jaws of the crocodile”
4/9
#Scottish #literature #PeterPan #KidLit #ChildrensLiterature
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2010/12/the-secret-history-of-captain-hook/68313/
“Neverland is as much a tomb for the unloved and forgotten as it is a map of a child’s mind. It is a place ruled by a boy with a memory as thin as the skeleton leaves he wears.”
– Sabrina Orah Mark on boyhood, motherhood, race, & Peter Pan
5/9
#Scottish #literature #PeterPan #KidLit #ChildrensLiterature #motherhood #race
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/06/19/sorry-peter-pan-were-over-you/
“I was struck by just how fun, playful and jesting Barrie was. And while I knew they developed a friendship, I didn’t realise just how much the friendship with Stevenson meant to Barrie”
—A Friendship in Letters: Michael Shaw brings together correspondence between two of Scotland’s most famous writers
6/9
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #RobertLouisStevenson #19thcentury #letters
https://booksfromscotland.com/2020/11/a-friendship-in-letters/
Although Barrie is remembered today almost exclusively for PETER PAN, he was a prominent 19th-century novelist & the most successful British playwright of the early 20th century.
GATEWAY TO THE MODERN, edited by Valentina Bold & Andrew Nash, explores Barrie’s multifarious career
7/9
#Scottish #literature #PeterPan #ChildrensLiterature #19thcentury #20thCentury #drama #cinema #Victorian #Edwardian
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/occasional_papers/gateway_to_the_modern/
MARY ROSE
Currently available on BBC Sounds – JM Barrie’s haunting play about a girl who never grows up…
Written in the aftermath of WW1, Barrie’s drama about loss & the mystery of life is by turns comic, eerie, & heartbreaking
8/9
#Scottish #literature #20thCentury #drama #WW1
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0801l4v
“Farewell Miss Julie Logan”, by JM Barrie
The tale of an uncanny romance in a remote winter glen, “Farewell Miss Julie Logan” is one of the most unnerving & tenacious examples of #Scottish #Gothic fiction. Listen to the story online, from Romancing the Gothic
9/9
#literature #Scotland #supernatural #ghosts #ghoststories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enjQUoqUpy4
