A portrait of Barrie's mother, with insights into the effects of his brother's tragic early death.....Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 - 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and...
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The prolific Scotish author and dramatist J. M. Barrie is most famous for his creation of Peter Pan. Born in Kirriemuir, Forfarshire in 1860, he graduated Edinburgh University and began working as a journalist. Soon after he published his first novel Better Dead becaming a popular...
J. M. Barrie wrote a biography on his mother and family in Scotland in the late 19th century titled Margaret Ogilvy: Life Is a Long Lesson in Humility. It was the seventh-best-selling book in the US in 1897, according to The Bookman. The book features family memories and was...
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christened in it also, such robes being then a rare possession, and the lending ofours among my mother's glories. It was carried carefully from house to house, as ifit were itself a child; my mother made much of it, smoothed it out, petted it, smiledto it before putting it into...
Margaret Ogilvy (1897) is a biography by J. M. Barrie. Although he is more widely known as a popular storyteller whose Peter Pan books are filled with the wit and wonder of history's greatest fairytales, Barrie was also a gifted memoirist and biographer. Margaret...
In Margaret Ogilvy, author J. M. Barrie (today best remembered for his enduring children's classic Peter Pan) presents a loving, detailed portrait of his mother. As a child, Margaret had been forced to become the "woman of the house" when she was only eight years old, filling...
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Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 - 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote several successful novels and plays. There...