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	J. M. Barrie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Barrie was born in Kirriemuir, Angus, the youngest of nine children, and was educated at Dumfries Academy and Edinburgh University.
		Barrie was a massive name in the literary scene, and counted Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson and Thomas Hardy amongst his friends and acquaintances.
		Barrie became acquainted with the family in 1897 or 1898 after meeting George and Jack with their nurse in London's Kensington Gardens, where he often came while walking his dog, Porthos, and lived nearby.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/J._M._Barrie (890 words)

	JM Barrie - The little boy who never grew up - [Sunday Herald]
		A new play by JM Barrie was always an event, but there was an uncommon air of expectancy at the Duke of York’s Theatre in London when, at Christmas a century ago, the audience waited for the curtain to go up on the Scottish writer’s latest production.
		Modestly, Barrie had warned him his play was merely a “dream-child” and completely uncommercial, but when Frohman read it, he was enchanted, button-holing people in the street to act out whole scenes and investing Cameron Mackintosh-esque capital in it.
		Barrie insisted he was not, at least not entirely.
	www.sundayherald.com /45521 (1618 words)

	Famous Scots - Sir J M Barrie
		Barrie wrote for a number of papers and published his first book in 1887 and subsequent stories established his reputation and popularity.
		Barrie was knighted in 1913 and became Rector of St Andrews University in the same year (delivering a notable address on "courage" at his inauguration).
		Barrie claimed that he played twice for the local cricket club - "The first time I scored one run, the second time I was not so lucky".
	www.rampantscotland.com /famous/blfambarrie.htm (638 words)

	Movie Spoiler for the film - FINDING NEVERLAND
		Barrie is also inspired by little things the boys do, for instance, them jumping on their beds makes him think of flying.
		Barrie's wife is there even though she ran off with the friend and tells Barrie that it was the best he had written and the family helped him write it.
		Barrie finds Peter on the bench and tells him that his mother will be with him if he can just find her in his imagination.
	www.themoviespoiler.com /Spoilers/findingneverland.html (1249 words)

	Famous British Paedophiles - J.M. Barrie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Barrie began "worshipping from afar" young actresses of the 1890s London stage, despite his being scarcely 5' tall and with a legendary shyness and reserve broken only in the presence of children.
		Barrie "went back to the silence of his study" and began his first great novel of boyhood, Sentimental Tommy, finding a life-model in his close friendship with Arthur Quiller-Couche's son, Bevil - the first of a lifelong string of intimate and often romantic friendships with young boys.
		Barrie first met the boys on his daily walks out seeking children and their nannies to befriend in Kensington Gardens, and the Llewelwyn Davies boys soon became the loves of his life.
	www.glgarden.org /ocg/archive1/barrie.html (906 words)

	Return to Neverland
		The son of a weaver, Barrie was born in Kirriemuir, Angus, in 1860, and worked as a journalist before moving to London and becoming a successful novelist, with A Window on Thrums and The Little Minister, sentimental tales set in Scotland.
		Barrie's wife's correspondence seemed to confirm long-standing rumours of impotence, though Nico Llewelyn Davies, the youngest boy, who was now an old man, told Birkin he "never heard one word or saw one glimmer of anything approaching homosexuality or paedophilia...
		Barrie donated the rights to Peter Pan to London's Great Ormond Street Hospital, but the copyright expires in Europe in 2007 and last month the hospital announced it was looking for an author to write a sequel to ensure Peter continued to sprinkle fairy dust on hospital funds.
	www.iofilm.co.uk /feats/interviews/r/return_to_neverland_040920.php (1314 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Barrie, J. M.
		J.M. Barrie was born on 9 May 1860 at Kirriemuir in Forfarshire, Scotland, the third son and seventh surviving child of Margaret Ogilvy and David Barrie, a handloom weaver.
		Barrie was brought up in a tiny stone-built cottage fronting a main road, with a little wash-house at the rear, which he later identified as his first theatre.
		Barrie's sense of his own inadequacy as a man undoubtedly prompted this play as well as a later, one-act piece, The Twelve-Pound Look (1910), a brilliant exposure of the upper-class English male, which was written shortly after Barrie divorced Mary Ansell in 1909 on grounds of adultery.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5138 (2130 words)

	The Straight Dope: Was the author of "Peter Pan" a pedophile? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Barrie moved to London in his mid-20s and enjoyed quick success, first as a journalist, then a novelist, and finally a playwright.
		Barrie was later rumored to be impotent, but it seems more accurate to say he had little interest in sex.
		Barrie charmed Sylvia as he had charmed her kids and soon insinuated himself into the household, visiting frequently and joining the family on holidays, somewhat to the distress of Mary and Arthur.
	www.straightdope.com /columns/041119.html (880 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Review \| A child in time
		JM Barrie was inspired to write Peter Pan by a family of boisterous boys.
		Barrie's "Dedication to the Five" tells the story of how the play came to be: "I suppose I always knew that I made Peter by rubbing the five of you violently together, as savages with two sticks produce a flame...
		Pan is Barrie, whose formative experience was the death of his brother (aged 15) when he was little and felt compelled to try to replace him for his mother, even wearing his clothes and whistling his whistle.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,,1332703,00.html (1814 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		JM Barrie is a wonderful playwright who is the mastermind behind the story of Peter Pan.
		JM Barrie is a man in his 40's who still has the imagination and innocence of a young boy.
		Barrie continues to visit the boys and come up with exciting new adventures for them all to go on, like a crew fighting pirates on a ship, and each time trying new ways for Peter to join in and use his imagination.
	www.uwm.edu /People/stanisl3/project3.htm (394 words)

	Johnny Depp set to ‘rescue’ JM Barrie - [Sunday Herald]
		IN his day, JM Barrie was Britain’s top playwright, but ironically only Peter Pan has survived the test of time, with most of his other works virtually forgotten.
		The son of a weaver, Barrie was born in 1860, and worked as a journalist before moving to London and becoming a successful novelist, with A Window On Thrums and The Little Minister, sentimental tales set in Scotland.
		Barrie’s wife’s correspondence seemed to confirm long-standing rumours of impotence, though Nico Llewelyn Davies, the youngest boy, then an old man, told Birkin he “never heard one word or saw one glimmer of anything approaching homosexuality or paedophilia … Barrie was innocent – which is why he could write Peter Pan.”
	www.sundayherald.com /44734 (881 words)

	The New Yorker: The Critics: A Critic At Large (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Barrie family—James was one of ten children, two of whom died in infancy—was ardently ambitious for its sons, the tool of that ambition was education, and Barrie duly studied at Dumfries Academy and at Edinburgh University.
		This plan of Barrie’s may have been creepy and pathetic, but it was not a crime, and, as weaknesses go, it may be the most widespread in the world, haunting every harassed male who lies awake and tells himself how much simpler everything was as a kid.
		Sylvia Llewellyn Davies first met Barrie at a dinner party in 1897; as the evening progressed, she realized that he was the man who wiggled his eyebrows at her children in the park.
	www.newyorker.com /critics/atlarge?041122crat_atlarge (3488 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Features - The Lost Boy who still eludes us (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Barrie was his own mythologist: he loved making up stories about himself, and her book is an attempt to unpick the truth.
		According to Barrie, the event made his mother withdraw into a silent grief from which James could not rescue her, even when he tried imitating the dead boy.
		The Barries' marriage was childless, and Mary Barrie felt so starved of affection that she eventually took a lover and divorced James, but if he failed to give her enough attention it was perhaps mainly because he was such a workaholic.
	news.scotsman.com /features.cfm?id=702592005 (1320 words)

	GOSHCC: J M Barrie Biography
		James Matthew Barrie was born in the small weaving town of Kirriemuir, Scotland on 9 May 1860, the ninth of ten children of a handloom weaver and his ambitious wife, Margaret Ogilvy.
		The notion of the everlasting childhood stayed with Barrie and became one of the defining reasons for his lifelong love of children, as well as the inspiration for his most famous play, Peter Pan.
		Barrie developed a strong friendship with the children and their parents, Sylvia and Arthur.
	www.gosh.org /about_us/peterpan/barrie.html (503 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Features - Seeking out the real JM Barrie
		Barrie was a mere 5ft 1in, sexually uncharismatic, possibly (according to music hall innuendo) impotent; Mr Depp is none of these things.
		But outside academe, interest in Barrie is often deterred by the p-word: the suspicion that his writing was a mask for paedophilia.
		Barrie was divorced from his actress wife Mary Ansell amid rumours that their marriage was never consummated ("Boys never make good lovers," she is supposed to have said).
	news.scotsman.com /features.cfm?id=1212722004 (1602 words)

	jmbarrie.co.uk - Andrew Birkin on JM Barrie ( for RSC)
		Barrie's London home was only a short hop across the road from Kensington Gardens, where he was in the habit of walking his enormous St Bernard dog, Porthos.
		The attraction was mutual, for Barrie could wiggle his ears, perform magic feats with his eyebrows, and seemed to be remarkably well-informed on the subject of fairies, murders, cricket, pirates and desert islands.
		Barrie's relationship with the Davies family, hitherto restricted to brief encounters with the boys in the Park, now became the focal point of his deepest emotional yearnings.
	www.jmbarrie.co.uk /boy_castaways/ab_on_JMB_RSC.html (1667 words)

	Amazon.com: JM Barrie and the Lost Boys: Books: Andrew Birkin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The sentimental Barrie was deeply tied to and haunted by his own familial relationships, a psychology he brought to and projected upon the Llewelyn Davies family after becoming enchanted by two of their young boys in Kensington Gardens.
		Barrie was a middle aged and childless man, if a very successful one, at that time in his life, and his manipulative and interloping intrusion into the family has been a subject of speculation by historians and literary scholars ever since.
		Barrie's apparently celibate marriage collapsed, and a key figure in his personal and professional life died during the sinking of the Lusitania.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0517538733?v=glance (2325 words)

	Angus Council \| Local History \| People of Angus \| J M Barrie 1860 - 1937
		J M Barrie married an actress in 1894, and when they were on honeymoon in Switzerland they bought a St Bernard puppy.
		Barrie was becoming rich and famous and received many honours.
		Barrie gave the man’s younger brother the job, which he kept for over thirty years without a breath of scandal.
	www.angus.gov.uk /history/features/people/JMBarrie.htm (703 words)

	AboutFilm.com - Finding Neverland (2004)
		Not having children of his own, Barrie is immediately fascinated by Peter and his three brothers, and when he meets their gorgeous mother, the young widow Sylvia Llewelyn Davies (Kate Winslet), he is drawn to them all the more.
		Barrie becomes the family's surrogate father, and his relationship with the boys forms the basis of Peter Pan.
		In real life, Sylvia was not yet a widow when Barrie entered her life, and two of her five children (not four) were yet to be born.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/f/findingneverland.htm (997 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Captain Hook's first adventure
		But archivists at the University of Exeter are convinced that it is a photograph of JM Barrie dressed up as Captain Hook, and that it was taken in about 1900, four years before Peter Pan first flew across the a London stage, and eleven years before he appeared in a book.
		She then found Andrew Birkin's 1979 book JM Barrie And The Lost Boys, and saw in it a picture that was also in the album.
		The story of how Barrie came to write Peter Pan is to be portrayed in a film, JM Barrie's Neverland, due for release in 2004, starring Johnny Depp as Barrie and Kate Winslet as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies.
	www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,3604,1105229,00.html (463 words)

	J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Barrie, novelist, playwright, and author of Peter Pan or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up, led a life almost as magical and interesting as as his famous creation.
		Childless in his marriage, Barrie grew close to the five young boys of the Llewelyn Davies family, ultimately becoming their guardian and devoted surrogate father when they were orphaned.
		Andrew Birkin draws extensively on a vast range of material by and about Barrie, including notebooks, memoirs, and hours of recorded interviews with the Llewelyn Davies family and their circle, to describe Barrie’s life and the wonderful world he created for the boys.
	yalepress.yale.edu /yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300098227 (370 words)

	Finding Neverland (2004)
		When Barrie takes his dog to the park, he meets widow Sylvia Llewelyn Davies (Kate Winslet) and her four sons: Michael (Luke Spill), Jack (Joe Prospero), Peter (Freddie Highmore) and George (Nick Roud).
		Barrie entertains them as he plays with dog Porthos, and they meet up again on future occasions.
		In addition, Mary clearly doesn’t approve of Barrie’s dalliance with Sylvia, though she views the situation as an opportunity to move up socially; Sylvia’s mother is Emma du Maurier (Julie Christie), a notable in posh circles.
	www.dvdmg.com /findingneverland.shtml (2050 words)

	Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library: Exhibitions .. Barrie
		Today, Barrie's fame is largely based on that iconic work of 20th century drama and children's literature, "Peter Pan: The Boy who would not grow up" - a cultural juggernaut that flew into the hearts of theater-goers and readers.
		During his lifetime, Barrie's greatest reknown was based on a large body of novels, plays, and journalism that made him one of the most popular writers in late Victorian England.
		Always a writer who was interested in the nature of childhood, Barrie's devotion to the young Llewelyn Davies brothers signaled an experiment with form that produced "Peter Pan." The success of "Peter Pan," following its premiere in December 1904, assured Barrie a permanent place in popular culture.
	www.library.yale.edu /beinecke/brblevents/barrie.htm (888 words)

	Neverland - Press - Kate Winslet and Johnny Depp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		JM Barrie was an intriguing figure, who himself stopped growing when he reached five feet in height - echoing Peter Pan, who never grows up.
		The tale of Peter Pan was inspired by the five young sons of two of Barrie's friends.
		When his friends died, Barrie became their guardian.
	www.discoverkate.com /movies/neverland/press-02_0724_ok-feature.html (631 words)

	J.M. Barrie's fairy dust lifts nearly lost 'Neverland' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He doesn't play Barrie as a child- man who can approach children on their own level but rather as a quiet saint teeming with unspoken wisdom -- a wisdom of a kind too elemental and profound to be understood by anyone old enough to shave.
		If Barrie were presented as a more strange or original personality, the endless scenes of him clowning with the kids might have been amusing.
		What saves "Finding Neverland" is what saves Barrie for posterity: He writes "Peter Pan." The last 30 minutes of the film are made up largely of scenes straight out of the Barrie classic, and the scenes that aren't are nonetheless infused by its openhearted longing, its hope in the midst of sorrow.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/11/19/DDGAU9T91C1.DTL&type=movies (669 words)

	Movie-List - Reviews - Finding Neverland
		Barrie becomes infatuated with the innocence and unfathomable appetite the family has for stories.
		Much to the resentment of Barrie’s neglected wife (Radha Mitchell), Barrie begins spending a lot of time with the widow and her boys.
		Even though “Finding Neverland” isn’t the complete and true story of JM Barrie, it is truly an inspiration and probably the “feel good” movie of the year.
	www.movie-list.com /reviews.php?id=findingneverland (522 words)

	zeppo: Ruining children's literature one book at a time
		JM Barrie - the author of "Peter Pan" was the younger of a large family and when he was seven years old his elder brother of nine died rather horribly.
		It was reputed that the seven year old JM Barrie started wearing his dead brothers clothes and answering to his name in hopes of pleasing his mother.
		JM became close with Sylvia Llwelyn Davies and her five young boys.
	www.livejournal.com /users/zeppo/100753.html (1301 words)

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