If you have never read Barrie's original novel, or if you did long ago but find your personal vision of Peter Pan as a character and as a work of fiction clouded by the many subsequent adaptations (and, let's face it, mostly the Disney movie), I couldn't recommend reading Peter and Wendy (the original title for the Peter Pan novel) enough. What am I doing with my life? Do I not have a PhD thesis on an unrelated subject to write? Why the hell am I devoting hours of my time to writing a semi-academic paper that no one asked for? All valid questions that I will simply ignore. I started reading this Centennial Edition of Peter Pan after watching the 2003 adaptation, getting quite literally slapped in the face by Hook's death scene, thinking about nothing else for days, starting to write notes like a maniac, and eventually falling into a research rabbit hole that led me to this book.
Before his death, he gave the rights to the Peter Pan works to Great Ormond Street Hospital, which continues to benefit from them.
This play quickly overshadowed his previous work and although he continued to write successfully, it became his best-known work, credited with popularising the name Wendy, which was very uncommon previously.īarrie unofficially adopted the Davies boys following the deaths of their parents. In London he met the Llewelyn Davies boys who inspired him in writing about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (included in The Little White Bird), then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a "fairy play" about this ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland. During the next 10 years Barrie continued writing novels, but gradually his interest turned toward the theatre. The publication of The Little Minister (1891) established his reputation as a novelist. His early works, Auld Licht Idylls (1889) and A Window in Thrums (1889), contain fictional sketches of Scottish life and are commonly seen as representative of the Kailyard school. He took up journalism, worked for a Nottingham newspaper, and contributed to various London journals before moving to London in 1885. The son of a weaver, Barrie studied at the University of Edinburgh. Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan.
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