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Despite a long-lasting friendship by letter, JM Barrie & Robert Louis Stevenson never met, & Barrie never got to go to Samoa:
“Vailima was the one spot on earth I had any great craving to visit… I shall never go up the Road of Loving Hearts now, on ‘a wonderful clear night of stars,’ to meet the man coming toward me on a horse.”
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Samoa #RobertLouisStevenson #JMBarrie
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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
7/10
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/occasional_papers/gateway_to_the_modern/
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #19thcentury #Victorian #20thcentury #Edwardian #PeterPan #drama #cinema #cinemahistory
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“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 lost boys, fairy tales, & raising Black sons in America
5/10
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/06/19/sorry-peter-pan-were-over-you/
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #PeterPan #motherhood #race
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“…James Hook’s last will, which was forwarded to his aunt by a land-shark of Rio. By this James left everything to Eton. But the Governors, it appears, had scruples—even about the hat—and so all passed to his aunt Emily…”
—JM Barrie’s “Captain Hook at Eton” – being the text of an address delivered at Eton College in 1927 – can be read online via WikiSource
4.5/10
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Captain_Hook_at_Eton
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #PeterPan #EtonCollege #privateschools
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“James Hook, the pirate captain, was a great Etonian, but not a good one…”
—Brian Till in The Atlantic explores “The Secret History of Captain Hook”
🖼️ Alice B. Woodward (1862–1951), “Right into the jaws of the crocodile”
4/10
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2010/12/the-secret-history-of-captain-hook/68313/
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #PeterPan #EtonCollege #privateschools
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“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, John Pielmeier – author of HOOK’S TALE – follows a chain of real & fictional islands to JM Barrie’s Neverland…
3/10
https://lithub.com/visiting-the-actual-island-that-inspired-neverland/
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #PeterPan #RobertLouisStevenson #DanielDefoe #RobinsonCrusoe
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“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
2/10
https://lithub.com/empathizing-with-the-mother-figures-of-peter-pan/
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #PeterPan #motherhood
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“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
1/10
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/11/22/lost-boys
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #PeterPan