J. M. Barrie

Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet,OM(/ˈbæri/;9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator ofPeter Pan.He was born and educated inScotlandand then moved toLondon,where he wrote several successful novels and plays. There he met theLlewelyn Davies boys,who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures inKensington Gardens(first included in Barrie's 1902 adult novelThe Little White Bird), then to writePeter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up,a 1904West End"fairy play" about an ageless boy and an ordinary girl namedWendywho have adventures in the fantasy setting ofNeverland.

Sir J. M. Barrie Bt,OM
Portrait byHerbert Rose Barraud,1892
Born	James Matthew Barrie (1860-05-09)9 May 1860 Kirriemuir,Angus, Scotland
Died	19 June 1937(1937-06-19)(aged 77) London, England
Resting place	Kirriemuir Cemetery, Angus
Occupation	Novelist playwright
Education	Glasgow Academy Forfar Academy Dumfries Academy
Alma mater	University of Edinburgh
Period	Victorian Edwardian
Genre	Children's literature drama fantasy
Notable works	The Little White Bird Peter Pan The Admirable Crichton
Spouse	Mary Ansell ​ ​ (m.1894;div.1909)​
Children	Guardian of theLlewelyn Davies boys
Signature
Website
jmbarrie.co.uk jmbarriesociety.co.uk

Although he continued to write successfully,Peter Panovershadowed his other work, and is credited with popularising the nameWendy.Barrie unofficially adopted the Davies boys following the deaths of their parents. Barrie was made a baronet byGeorge Von 14 June 1913,and a member of theOrder of Meritin the1922 New Year Honours.Before his death, he gave the rights to the Peter Pan works toGreat Ormond Street Hospital for Childrenin London, which continues to benefit from them.

Childhood and adolescence

James Matthew Barrie was born inKirriemuir,Angus,to a conservativeCalvinistfamily. His father, David Barrie, was a modestly successful weaver. His mother, Margaret Ogilvy, assumed her deceased mother's household responsibilities at the age of eight. Barrie was the ninth child of ten (two of whom died before he was born), all of whom were schooled in at leastthe three Rsin preparation for possible professional careers.He was a small child and drew attention to himself with storytelling.He grew to only 5 ft 31⁄2in. (161 cm) according to his 1934 passport.

When James Barrie was six years old, his elder brother David (their mother's favourite) died in an ice-skating accident on the day before his 14th birthday.This left his mother devastated, and Barrie tried to fill David's place in his mother's attentions, even wearing David's clothes and whistling in the manner that he did. One time, Barrie entered her room and heard her say, "Is that you?" "I thought it was the dead boy she was speaking to", wrote Barrie in his biographical account of his motherMargaret Ogilvy(1896) "and I said in a little lonely voice, 'No, it's no' him, it's just me.'"Barrie's mother found comfort in the fact that her dead son would remain a boy forever, never to grow up and leave her.Eventually, Barrie and his mother entertained each other with stories of her brief childhood and books such asRobinson Crusoe,works by fellow ScotsmanWalter Scott,andThe Pilgrim's Progress.

At the age of eight, Barrie was sent tothe Glasgow Academyin the care of his eldest siblings, Alexander and Mary Ann, who taught at the school. When he was 10, he returned home and continued his education at theForfar Academy.At 14, he left home forDumfries Academy,again under the watch of Alexander and Mary Ann. He became a voracious reader and was fond ofpenny dreadfulsand the works ofRobert Michael BallantyneandJames Fenimore Cooper.AtDumfries,he and his friends spent time in the garden ofMoat Braehouse, playing pirates "in a sort of Odyssey that was long afterwards to become the play ofPeter Pan".They formed a drama club, producing his first playBandelero the Bandit,which provoked a minor controversy following a scathing moral denunciation from a clergyman on the school's governing board.

Literary career

Barrie in 1892

Barrie knew that he wished to follow a career as an author. However, his family attempted to persuade him to choose a profession such as the ministry. With advice from Alexander, he was able to work out a compromise: he would attend a university but would study literature.Barrie enrolled at theUniversity of Edinburghwhere he wrote drama reviews for theEdinburgh Evening Courant.He graduated and obtained an M.A. on 21 April 1882.

Following a job advertisement found by his sister inThe Scotsman,he worked for a year and a half as a staff journalist on theNottingham Journal.Back in Kirriemuir, he submitted a piece to theSt. James's Gazette,a London newspaper, using his mother's stories about the town where she grew up (renamed "Thrums" ). The editor "liked that Scotch thing" so well that Barrie ended up writing a series of these stories.They served as the basis for his first novels:Auld Licht Idylls(1888),A Window in Thrums(1889),andThe Little Minister(1891).

Some of Barrie's novels

The stories depicted the "Auld Lichts", a strict religious sect to which his grandfather had once belonged.Modern literary criticism of these early works has been unfavourable, tending to disparage them as sentimental and nostalgic depictions of a parochial Scotland, far from the realities of the industrialised 19th century, seen as characteristic of what became known as theKailyard School.Despite, or perhaps because of, this, they were popular enough at the time to establish Barrie as a successful writer.Following that success, he publishedBetter Dead(1888) privately and at his own expense, but it failed to sell.His two "Tommy" novels,Sentimental Tommy(1896) andTommy and Grizel(1900), were about a boy and young man who clings to childish fantasy, with an unhappy ending. The English novelistGeorge Gissingread the former in November 1896 and wrote that he "thoroughly dislike[d it]".

Meanwhile, Barrie's attention turned increasingly to works for the theatre, beginning with a biography ofRichard Savage,written by Barrie andH. B. Marriott Watson;it was performed only once and critically panned. He immediately followed this withIbsen's Ghost,orToole Up-to-Date(1891), aparodyofHenrik Ibsen's dramasHedda GablerandGhosts.Ghostshad been unlicensed in the UK until 1914,but had created a sensation at the time from a single "club" performance.

Peter Pan statue(1912) by SirGeorge FramptoninKensington Gardens,London

The production ofIbsen's GhostatToole's Theatrein London was seen byWilliam Archer,the translator of Ibsen's works into English. Apparently comfortable with the parody, he enjoyed the humour of the play and recommended it to others. Barrie's third playWalker, London(1892) resulted in his being introduced to a young actress named Mary Ansell. He proposed to her and they were married on 9 July 1894. Barrie bought her aSaint Bernardpuppy, Porthos, who played a part in the 1902 novelThe Little White Bird.He used Ansell's first name for many characters in his novels.Barrie also authoredJane Annie,acomic operaforRichard D'Oyly Carte(1893), which failed; he persuadedArthur Conan Doyleto revise and finish it for him.

In 1901 and 1902, he had back-to-back successes;Quality Streetwas about a respectable, responsibleold maidwho poses as her own flirtatious niece to try to win the attention of a former suitor returned from the war.The Admirable Crichtonwas a critically acclaimed social commentary with elaborate staging, about an aristocratic family and their household servants whose social order is inverted after they are shipwrecked on a desert island.Max Beerbohmthought it "quite the best thing that has happened, in my time, to the British theatre".

The character of "Peter Pan" first appeared inThe Little White Bird.The novel was published in the UK byHodder & Stoughtonin 1902, and serialised in the US in the same year inScribner's Magazine.Barrie's more famous and enduring workPeter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Uphad its first stage performance on 27 December 1904 at theWest End’sDuke of York's Theatre.This play introduced audiences to the nameWendy;it was inspired by a young girl namedMargaret Henleywho called Barrie "Friendy", but could not pronounce herRs very well. TheBloomsburyscenes show the societal constraints of late Victorian and Edwardian middle class domestic reality, contrasted withNeverland,a world where morality is ambivalent.George Bernard Shawdescribed the play as "ostensibly a holiday entertainment for children but really a play for grown-up people", suggesting deeper social metaphors at work inPeter Pan.In 1907, it was parodied by H. G. Pélissier andThe Folliesat theApollo TheatreonShaftesbury Avenuein a sketch entitledBaffles or the Peterpan-tomime.This parody was in fact reviewed by Barrie himself in a magazine calledSphereas being "funny in little bits", although he also concluded thatThe Follieswere "one of the funniest things now to be seen in London."

Barrie had a long string of successes on the stage afterPeter Pan,many of which discuss social concerns, as Barrie continued to integrate his work and his beliefs.The Twelve Pound Look(1910) concerns a wife leaving her 'typical' husband once she can gain an independent income. Other plays, such asMary Rose(1920) andDear Brutus(1917), revisit the idea of the ageless child and parallel worlds. Barrie was involved in the 1909 and 1911 attempts to challenge the censorship of the theatre by theLord Chamberlain,along with a number of other playwrights.

In 1911, Barrie developed thePeter Panplay into the novelPeter and Wendy.In April 1929, Barrie gave thecopyrightof the Peter Pan works toGreat Ormond Street Hospital,a leading children's hospital in London. Thecurrent status of the copyrightis somewhat complex. His final play wasThe Boy David(1936), which dramatised the Biblical story of KingSauland the youngDavid.Like the role of Peter Pan, that of David was played by a woman,Elisabeth Bergner,for whom Barrie wrote the play.

Social connections

Barrie, c. 1895

Barrie moved in literary circles and had many famous friends in addition to his professional collaborators. NovelistGeorge Meredithwas an early socialpatron.He had a long correspondence with fellow ScotRobert Louis Stevenson,who lived inSamoaat the time. Stevenson invited Barrie to visit him, but the two never met.He was also friends with fellow Scots writerS. R. Crockett.George Bernard Shawwas his neighbour in London for several years, and once participated in a Western that Barrie scripted and filmed.H. G. Wellswas a friend of many years, and tried to intervene when Barrie's marriage fell apart. Barrie metThomas HardythroughHugh Cliffordwhile he was staying in London.He was friends withNobel prize winnerJohn Galsworthy.

Barrie remained tied to his Scottish roots and visited his hometown ofKirriemuirregularly with his wards. When choosing his first personal secretary, Barrie choseE. V. Lucas's wife, Elizabeth Lucas, who had Scottish roots through her American parentage.After Elizabeth Lucas moved to Paris, France, Barrie choseCynthia Asquithas his personal secretary.

After theFirst World War,Barrie sometimes stayed atStanway Housenear the village ofStanwayinGloucestershire.He paid for the pavilion at Stanwaycricketground.In 1887, he founded an amateur cricket team for friends of similarly limited playing ability, and named it theAllahakbarriesunder the mistaken belief that "Allah akbar" meant "Heaven help us" in Arabic (rather than "God is great" ).Some of the best known British authors from the era played on the team at various times, includingH. G. Wells,Rudyard Kipling,Arthur Conan Doyle,P. G. Wodehouse,Jerome K. Jerome,G. K. Chesterton,A. A. Milne,E. W. Hornung,A. E. W. Mason,Walter Raleigh,E. V. Lucas,Maurice Hewlett,Owen Seaman(editor ofPunch),Bernard Partridge,George Cecil Ives,George Llewelyn Davies(see below) and the son ofAlfred Tennyson.In 1891, Barrie joined the newly formedAuthors Cricket Cluband also played for its cricket team, the Authors XI, alongside Doyle, Wodehouse and Milne. The Allahakbarries and the Authors XI continued to exist side by side until 1912.

Barrie befriended Africa explorerJoseph Thomsonand Antarctica explorerRobert Falcon Scott.He wasgodfatherto Scott's sonPeter,and was one of the seven people to whom Scott wrote letters in the final hours of his life during his expedition to theSouth Pole,asking Barrie to take care of his wifeKathleenand son Peter. Barrie was so proud of the letter that he carried it around for the rest of his life.

In 1896, his agent Addison Bright persuaded him to meet with Broadway producerCharles Frohman,who became his financial backer and a close friend, as well.Frohman was responsible for producing the debut ofPeter Panin both England and the US, as well as other productions of Barrie's plays. He famously declined a lifeboat seat when theRMSLusitaniawas sunk by a GermanU-boatin the North Atlantic. ActressRita Jolivetstood with Frohman, George Vernon and Captain Alick Scott at the end of Lusitania's sinking, but she survived the sinking and recalled Frohman paraphrasingPeter Pan:'Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure that life gives us.'Barrie had himself sailed on one of theLusitania's final Atlantic crossings in September 1914, during which rumours circulated amongst the passengers that the liner was to be transferred to the British Admiralty for troopship duties on arrival in New York.

His secretary from 1917,Cynthia Asquith,was the daughter-in-law ofH. H. Asquith,British Prime Minister from 1908 to 1916.In the 1930s, Barrie met and told stories to the young daughters of theDuke of York,the futureQueen Elizabeth IIandPrincess Margaret.After meeting him, the three-year-old Princess Margaret announced, "He is my greatest friend and I am his greatest friend".

Marriage

Blue plaqueon 100Bayswater Road,London where Barrie lived and wrotePeter Pan

Barrie became acquainted with actressMary Ansellin 1891, when he asked his friendJerome K. Jeromefor a pretty actress to play a role in his playWalker, London.The two became friends, and she helped his family to care for him when he fell very ill in 1893 and 1894.They married in Kirriemuir on 9 July 1894,shortly after Barrie recovered, and Mary retired from the stage. The wedding was a small ceremony in his parents' home, in the Scottish tradition.The relationship was reportedly unconsummated, and the couple had no children.

In 1895, the Barries bought a house on Gloucester Road, in South Kensington.Barrie would take long walks in nearby Kensington Gardens, and in 1900 the couple moved into a house directly overlooking the gardens at 100Bayswater Road.Mary had a flair for interior design and set about transforming the ground floor, creating two large reception rooms with painted panelling and adding fashionable features, such as a conservatory.In the same year, Mary found Black Lake Cottage atFarnhaminSurrey,which became the couple's "bolt hole" where Barrie could entertain his cricketing friends and the Llewelyn Davies family.

Beginning in mid-1908, Mary had an affair withGilbert Cannan(who was twenty years younger than sheand an associate of Barrie in his anti-censorship activities), including a visit together to Black Lake Cottage, known only to the house staff. When Barrie learned of the affair in July 1909, he demanded that she end it, but she refused. To avoid the scandal of divorce, he offered a legal separation if she would agree not to see Cannan any more, but she still refused. Barrie sued for divorce on the grounds of infidelity; the divorce was granted in October 1909.Knowing how painful the divorce was for him, some of Barrie's friends wrote to a number of newspaper editors asking them not to publish the story. In the event, only three newspapers did.Barrie continued to support Mary financially even after she married Cannan, by giving her an annual allowance, which was handed over at a private dinner held on her and Barrie's wedding anniversary.

Llewelyn Davies family

Jack Llewelyn Daviesacting in Barrie's pirate adventure,The Boy Castaways of Black Lake Island,1901

The Llewelyn Davies family played an important part in Barrie's literary and personal life, consisting ofArthur(1863–1907),Sylvia(1866–1910) (daughter ofGeorge du Maurier),andtheir five sons:George(1893–1915),John(Jack) (1894–1959),Peter(1897–1960),Michael(1900–1921) andNicholas(Nico) (1903–1980).

Barrie became acquainted with the family in 1897, meeting George and Jack (and baby Peter) with their nurse (nanny) Mary Hodgson in London'sKensington Gardens.He lived nearby and often walked his Saint Bernard dog Porthos in the park. He entertained the boys regularly with his ability to wiggle his ears and eyebrows, and with his stories.He did not meet Sylvia until a chance encounter at a dinner party in December. She told Barrie that Peter had been named after the title character in her father's novel,Peter Ibbetson.

Michael Llewelyn Daviesas Peter Pan, 1906. Photo was taken by Barrie at Cudlow House inRustington,West Sussex

Barrie became a regular visitor at the Davies household and a common companion to Sylvia and her boys, despite the fact that both he and she were married to other people.In 1901, he invited the Davies family to Black Lake Cottage, where he produced an album of captioned photographs of the boys acting out a pirate adventure, entitledThe Boy Castaways of Black Lake Island.Barrie had two copies made, one of which he gave to Arthur, who misplaced it on a train.The only surviving copy is held at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.

The character of Peter Pan was invented to entertain George and Jack. Barrie would say, to amuse them, that their little brother Peter could fly. He claimed that babies were birds before they were born; parents put bars on nursery windows to keep the little ones from flying away. This grew into a tale of a baby boy who did fly away.

Barrie’s Saint Bernard dog Porthos in 1899

Arthur Llewelyn Davies died in 1907, and "Uncle Jim" became even more involved with the Davies family, providing financial support to them. (His income fromPeter Panand other works was easily adequate to provide for their living expenses and education.)Following Sylvia's death in 1910, Barrie claimed that they had recently been engaged to be married.Her will indicated nothing to that effect but specified her wish for "J. M. B." to be trustee and guardian to the boys, along with her mother Emma, her brotherGuy du Maurierand Arthur's brother Compton. It expressed her confidence in Barrie as the boys' caretaker and her wish for "the boys to treat him (& their uncles) with absolute confidence & straightforwardness & to talk to him about everything."When copying the will informally for Sylvia's family a few months later, Barrie inserted himself elsewhere: Sylvia had written that she would like Mary Hodgson, the boys' nurse, to continue taking care of them, and for "Jenny" (referring to Hodgson's sister) to come and help her; Barrie instead wrote, "Jimmy" (Sylvia's nickname for him).Barrie and Hodgson did not get along well but served together as surrogate parents until the boys were grown.

Barrie also had friendships with other children, both before he met the Davies boys and after they had grown up, and there has since been unsubstantiated speculation that Barrie was apaedophile.One source for the speculation is a scene in the novelThe Little White Bird,in which the protagonist helps a small boy undress for bed, and at the boy's request they sleep in the same bed.However, there is no evidence that Barrie had sexual contact with children, nor that he was suspected of it at the time. Nico, the youngest of the brothers, denied as an adult that Barrie ever behaved inappropriately. "I don't believe that Uncle Jim ever experienced what one might call 'a stirring in the undergrowth' for anyone—man, woman, or child", he stated."He was an innocent—which is why he could write Peter Pan."His relationships with the surviving Davies boys continued well beyond their childhood and adolescence.

ThePeter Pan statuein Kensington Gardens, erected secretly overnight forMay Morningin 1912, was supposed to be modelled upon old photographs of Michael dressed as the character. However, the sculptor,Sir George Frampton,used a different child as a model, leaving Barrie disappointed with the result. "It doesn't show the devil in Peter", he said.

Barrie suffered bereavements with the boys, losing the two to whom he was closest in their early twenties. George was killed in action in 1915, in theFirst World War.Michael, with whom Barrie corresponded daily while at boarding school and university, drowned in 1921, with his friend, Rupert Buxton,at a known danger spot atSandford LocknearOxford,one month short of his 21st birthday.Some years after Barrie's death, Peter compiled hisMorguefrom family letters and papers, interpolated with his own informed comments on his family and their relationship with Barrie.Peter diedin 1960 by throwing himself in front of an Underground train at Sloane Square station.

Death

Gravestone of J. M. Barrie in Kirriemuir Cemetery

Barrie died ofpneumoniaat a nursing home in Manchester Street,Maryleboneon 19 June 1937.He was buried at Kirriemuir next to his parents and two of his siblings.His birthplace at 9 Brechin Road is maintained as a museum by theNational Trust for Scotland.

Barrie left the bulk of his estate to his secretaryLady Cynthia Asquith,but excluding the rights to allPeter Panworks (which includedThe Little White Bird,Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens,the playPeter Pan, or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Upand the novelPeter and Wendy), whose copyright he had previously given toGreat Ormond Street Hospitalin London. The surviving Llewelyn Davies boys received legacies, and he made provisions for his former wife Mary Ansell to receive an annuity during her lifetime.

His will also left £500 to the Bower Free Church inCaithnessto mark the memory of Rev James Winter who was to have married Barrie's sister in June 1892 but was killed in a fall from his horse in May 1892. Barrie had several connections to the Free Church of Scotland, including his maternal uncle Rev David Ogilvy (1822–1904), who was minister of Dalziel Church inMotherwell.James and his brother William Winter (also a Free Church minister) were both born inCortachythe sons of Rev William Winter. Cortachy is just west ofKirriemuirand the Winters seem closely connected to the Ogilvy family.

Biographies

Books

• Hammerton, J. A. (1929).Barrie: the Story of a Genius.New York: Dodd, Mead & Company.
• Darlington, W. A. (1938).J. M. Barrie.London and Glasgow: Blackie & Son.ISBN0-8383-1768-5.
• Chalmers, Patrick (1938).The Barrie Inspiration.Peter Davies.ISBN978-1-4733-1220-3.
• Mackail, Denis (1941).Barrie: The Story of J. M. B.New York: C. Scribner's Sons.ISBN0-8369-6734-8.
• Dunbar, Janet (1970).J. M. Barrie: The Man Behind the Image.London: Collins.ISBN0-00-211384-8.
• Birkin, Andrew(2003).J. M. Barrie and the Lost Boys: The Real Story Behind Peter Pan(Revised ed.).Yale University Press.ISBN978-0-300-09822-8.
• Chaney, Lisa (2006).Hide-and-Seek with Angels: A Life of J. M. Barrie.Arrow.ISBN978-0-09-945323-9.
• Dudgeon, Piers (2009).Captivated: J. M. Barrie, the du Mauriers & the Dark Side of Neverland.Vintage Books.ISBN978-0-09-952045-0.
• Telfer, Kevin (2010).Peter Pan's First XI: The Extraordinary Story of J. M. Barrie's Cricket Team.Sceptre.ISBN978-0-340-91945-3.
• Ridley, Rosalind (2016).Peter Pan and the Mind of J. M. Barrie: An Exploration of Cognition and Consciousness.Cambridge Scholars Publishing.ISBN978-1-4438-9107-3.
• Dudgeon, Piers (2016).J. M. Barrie and the Boy Who Inspired Him.Thomas Dunne Books.ISBN978-1-250-08779-9.

Journal

• Stokes, Sewell (November 1941). "James M Barrie".New York Theatre Arts Inc.25(11):845–848.

Film, television and stage

• The Lost Boys(1978).Ian Holm(as J.M. Barrie), Andrew Birkin (writer).BBC.
• The Man Who Was Peter Pan(1998) is a play byAllan Knee,a semi-biographical version of Barrie's life and relationship with theLlewelyn Daviesfamily.
• Finding Neverland(2004) withJohnny Depp(as J.M. Barrie),Kate Winslet(Sylvia Llewelyn Davies), Marc Forster (director), based on Allan Knee's play.
• The Boy James(2012) by Alexander Wright (ofBelt Up Theatre), is aone act playinspired by his life and work.
• Finding Neverland(2012) by Diane Paulus, is a musical about the creation of Peter Pan based on thefilmand starringMatthew MorrisonandLaura Michelle Kelly.

Honours

Personal

Barrie was created abaronetby KingGeorge Vin 1913. He was made a member of theOrder of Meritin 1922.

In 1919, he was electedRector of the University of St Andrewsfor a three-year term. In 1922, he delivered his celebrated Rectorial Address on Courage at St Andrews, and visitedUniversity College DundeewithEarl Haigto open its new playing fields, with Barrie bowling a few balls to Haig.He served asChancellor of the University of Edinburghfrom 1930 to 1937.

Barrie was the only person to receive the Freedom of Kirriemuir in a ceremony on 7 June 1930 inKirriemuir Town Hallwhere he was presented with a silver casket containing the freedom scroll. The casket was made by silversmiths Brook & Son in Edinburgh in 1929 and is decorated with images of sites in Kirriemuir which held significant memories for Barrie: Kirriemuir Townhouse, Strathview, Window in Thrums, the statue of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens and the Barrie Cricket Pavilion. The casket is on display in the Kirrimuir Gateway to the Glens Museum in theKirriemuir Town House.

Coat of arms of J. M. Barrie

Crest An open book amid reeds all Proper. Escutcheon Barry of six Argent and Gules in chief a lion passant guardant counterchanged and issuant from the base reeds Proper. Motto Amour De La Bonte (Love of Goodness)

Legacy

• TheSir James Barrie Primary SchoolinWandsworth,South West Londonis named after him.
• The Barrie SchoolinSilver Spring, Maryland,is also named in his honour.

Tributes

On 9 May 2010, Google celebrated J.M. Barrie's 150th Birthday with a doodle.

Bibliography

Peter Pan

• The Little White Bird,orAdventures in Kensington Gardens(1902)
• Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up(staged 1904, published 1928)
• Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens(1906)
• When Wendy Grew Up: An Afterthought(written – 1908, published 1957)
• Peter and Wendy(novel) (1911)

Other works by year

• Better Dead(1887)
• Auld Licht Idylls(1888)
• When a Man's Single(1888)
• A Window in Thrums(1889)
• My Lady Nicotine(1890), republished in 1926 with the subtitleA Study in Smoke
• The Little Minister(1891)
• Richard Savage(1891)
• Ibsen's Ghost (Toole Up-to-Date)(1891)
• Walker, London(1892)
• Jane Annie(opera), music byErnest Ford,libretto by Barrie andArthur Conan Doyle(1893)
• A Powerful Drug and Other Stories(1893)
• A Tillyloss Scandal(1893)
• Two of Them(1893)
• A Lady's Shoe(1893) (two short stories:A Lady's Shoe,The Inconsiderate Waiter)
• Life in a Country Manse(1894)
• Scotland's Lament: A Poem on the Death of Robert Louis Stevenson(1895)
• Sentimental Tommy, The Story of His Boyhood(1896)
• Margaret Ogilvy(1896)
• Jess(1898)
• Tommy and Grizel(1900)
• The Wedding Guest(1900)
• The Boy Castaways of Black Lake Island(1901)
• Quality Street(play) (1901)
• The Admirable Crichton(play) (1902)
• Little Mary(play) (1903)
• Alice Sit-by-the-Fire(play) (1905)
• Pantaloon(1905)
• What Every Woman Knows(play) (1908)
• Half an Hour(play) (1913)
• Half Hours(1914) includes:
  • Pantaloon
  • The Twelve-Pound Look(1911)
  • Rosalind
  • The Will
• The Legend of Leonora(1914)
• Der Tag(The Tragic Man)(Short play) (1914)
• The New Word(play) (1915)
• Charles Frohman: A Tribute(1915)
• Rosy Rapture(play) (1915)
• A Kiss for Cinderella(play) (1916)
• Real Thing at Last(play) (1916)
• Shakespeare's Legacy(play) (1916)
• A Strange Play(play) (1917)
• Charwomen and the WarorThe Old Lady Shows her Medals(play) (1917)
• Dear Brutus(1917) (play)
• La Politesse(play) (1918)
• Echoes of the War(1918) Four plays, includes:
  • The New Word
  • The Old Lady Shows Her Medals(basis for the movieSeven Days Leave(1930), starringGary Cooper)
  • A Well-Remembered Voice
  • Barbara's Wedding
• Mary Rose(1920)
• Courage,the Rectorial Address delivered at St. Andrews University (1922)
• The Author(1925)
• Biographical Introduction toScott's Last Expedition(preface) (orig. pub. 1913, introduction included in 1925 edition only)
• Cricket(1926)
• Shall We Join the Ladies?(1928) includes:
  • Shall We Join the Ladies?
  • Half an Hour
  • Seven Women
  • Old Friends
• The Greenwood Hat(1930)
• Farewell Miss Julie Logan(1932)
• The Boy David(1936)
• M'Connachie and J. M. B.(1938)
• story treatment for filmAs You Like It(1936)
• The Reconstruction of the Crime(play), co-written withE.V. Lucas(undated, first published 2017)
• Stories by English Authors: London(selected by Scribners, as contributor)
• Stories by English Authors: Scotland(selected by Scribners, as contributor)
• preface toThe Young Visiters or, Mr. Salteena's PlanbyDaisy Ashford
• The Earliest Plays of J. M. Barrie: Bandelero the Bandit, Bohemia and Caught Napping,edited by R.D.S. Jack (2014)

Further reading

• Craig, Cairns(1980),Fearful Selves: Character, Community and the Scottish Imagination,inCencrastusNo. 4, Winter 1980-81, pp. 29 – 32,ISSN0264-0856
• Pick, J.B.(1993), "Fear of the Dark: J.M. Barrie (1860-1937)", inThe Great Shadow House: Essays on the Metaphysical Tradition in Scottish Fiction,Polygon, Edinburgh, pp. 53 - 58,ISBN9780748661169
• Shaw, Michael (ed.) (2020),A Friendship in Letters: Robert Louis Stevenson & J.M. Barrie,Sandstone Press, InvernessISBN978-1-913207-02-1

Archival collections

• J. M. Barrie Collectionat theBeinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
• J. M. Barrie Collectionat theHarry Ransom Center

External links

• Works by James Matthew BarrieatFaded Page(Canada)
• Works by or about J. M. Barrieat theInternet Archive
• Works by J. M. BarrieatLibriVox(public domain audiobooks)
• Works by J. M. BarrieatProject Gutenberg
• Works by J. M. Barrie in eBook formatStandard Ebooks
• Peter Pan & Wendy Darling.11 October 1911.(Peter Pancomplete)
• J.M Barrie & 1909 Theatre Censorship Committee – UK Parliament Living Heritage
• JMbarrie.co.uksite authorised byGreat Ormond Street Hospital,edited by Andrew Birkin, includes database of original photographs, letters, documents and audio interviews conducted by Birkin in 1975–76
• Great Ormond Street Hospital's copyright claimArchived11 October 2010 at theWayback Machine
• "Why J. M. Barrie Created Peter Pan",Anthony Lane,The New Yorker,22 November 2004
• "J. M. Barrie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle"Archived2 November 2005 at theWayback Machineat The Chronicles of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (siracd.com)
• Audio recording of Barrie's short playThe Will—Recording by professional actors at LostPlays.com
• Film of Barrie from 1922 as Rector of St Andrews with Ellen Terry
• J. M. BarrieatIMDb
• J. M. Barrieat theInternet Speculative Fiction Database
• Plays by J. M. Barrie at the Great War Theatre website