Child’s Play 154
Courage 251
Dear Brutus 117n, 206 and note, 207, 224-6, 259, 265, 273, 274, 285n
The Foolies 154
The Greenwood Hat 100n, 146, 224n, 285n
Ibsen’s Ghost 116
Jane Annie, or The Good Conduct Prize 117, 119-21, 177n
A Kiss for Cinderella 223
Little Mary 215
The Little Minister 154, 157, 159
The Little White Bird 5-6, 12n, 20-3, 73-4, 117n, 152, 156-8, 165-6, 169, 183, 202, 207, 225
‘Log-Book’ 62
Margaret Ogilvy 59n, 70-1
Mary Rose 117n, 169, 207, 211, 256, 261
My Lady Nicotine 92
‘A Night in a Provincial Newspaper Office’ 92
The Old Bore’s Almanack 154
Peter Pan 7, 8, 9, 10, 19, 20, 62, 63, 73, 77, 94, 116, 117n, 122, 132, 166, 167, 168-9, 171-4, 176-8, 194, 195, 205, 207, 215, 217, 218, 224, 244, 250-1, 252, 259, 261
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens 183
Peter and Wendy 171, 177-8, 210
Quality Street 9
Richard Savage 96n, 116
‘The Rooks begin to Build’ 91
Sentimental Tommy 65, 117n, 146, 180
Shall We Join the Ladies? 222n, 242
Tommy and Grizel 117n, 119, 146, 161-2, 163-4, 165, 166, 172, 174, 237-8, 243 and note, 256
Walker, London 9, 119 and note
A Well-Remembered Voice 117n, 207
What Every Woman Knows 216, 222n
When A Man’s Single 92, 119n
Who’s Here 154
Barrie, Margaret (Barrie’s mother) see Ogilvy, Margaret
Barrie, Margaret ‘Maggie’ (Barrie’s sister) 59, 172, 211
Barrie, Mary (Barrie’s sister) 58
Barrie, Mary (née Ansell)
allusion to Barrie’s impotence and relationship with boys 18
appears in Barrie’s first play 9
attends parties given by the Lewis’s 154
Barrie’s courtship of 119
breakdown of marriage 167-8
and death of the St Bernard 167-8
disastrous marriage of 121-2
divorce and re-marriage 188-9
friendship with the Lawrences 249 and note, 250 and note, 293, 294
friendship with Sylvia 6, 156
on holiday at Caux 258, 295-6
on holiday with the Llewelyn Davies boys 12
and the truth concerning Barrie’s life 297
Barrie, Mrs Sweeten 72
Beaumont, Muriel see du Maurier, Muriel ‘Mo’
Beckly, John 239
Beecham, Charles Henry 240-1
Belloc-Lowndes, Marie 121
Bergheim, (hypnotist) 84-5
Bernstein, Sir Sidney 8
Besant, George 81
Besant, Walter 42 and note, 102
Birkin, Andrew 4 and note, 10, 16, 19, 23, 196, 209, 243
Black Lake Cottage (Tilford, Surrey) 6-7
Blaikie, Walter 8
Bliss, Dr Eugene 67-8
Bloomsbury Group 235, 249
Bluebell in Fairyland (play) 8
Boothby, Robert 24 and note, 233, 234, 235
Bosanquet, Theodora 103
Bradford, Barbara Taylor 279n
Braid, Dr James 49 and note
Breuer, Joseph 108
Bright, John 95
British Society for Psychical
Research 103
Brontë, Branwell 284-6
Brontë, Charlotte 284, 285
Brontë, Emily 261
Wuthering Heights 284
Brontë family 109n
Browning, Flavia (later Lady Leng) 222, 245, 264, 266, 270, 278
Browning, Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick ‘Boy’ or ‘Tommy’
affairs of 267, 271, 279 and note
appears in Daphne’s fiction 275
Daphne confesses affairs to 272n
death of 288
demobbed 269
left alone whilst on leave 266
meets and marries Daphne 263-4
retires from Royal service 283
splits his time between London and Menabilly 269-70
suffers a nervous breakdown 279, 280, 281, 283, 285
Browning, Christian ‘Kits’ 264, 270, 281-2
Browning, Robert 83
Browning, Tessa (later Lady Montgomery) 263-4, 265
Burnand, Francis 118
Burne-Jones, Edward 18, 78, 79, 126, 153
Burne-Jones, Philip 126
Burt, Clive 206
Buxton, Rupert 24, 153, 233-6, 239-42
Buxton, Sydney 153
Buxton, Sir Thomas Fowell Victor, 4th Baronet 233
Byron, Lord 171
The Cambridge Companion to Jung 134
Cameron, Julia Margaret 83
Campbell, Mrs Patrick 213
Cannan, Gilbert 188-9, 249, 258, 294, 295-6
Cannan, Mary see Barrie, Mary (née Ansell)
Cardus, Neville 211-12
Carlyle, Thomas 64-5, 66
On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History 65
Carrington, Dora 235
Carroll, Lewis 95 and note
‘Carry’ see Octavia
Carter, Thomas Frederick 241
Cazotte, Jacques 131 and note
Chang (Chinese giant) 99
Chang (St Bernard) 99, 100
Chaplin, Charlie 208n, 250-1
Charcot, Jean-Martin 47, 132 and note
Chase, Pauline 176
Cherry-Garrard, Apsley 180-1
Cheyney, Lisa, Life 71
Clarke, George 42
Clarke, Mary Anne 40, 56
The Clown (school journal) 62
Coles, Edward 129, 209
Comyns Carr, 154 and note
Cooper, Gladys 224
Cornhill magazine 81, 82, 99
Coward, Noel 273
Crane, David 180
Cremation Act (1902) 145
Crookes, Sir William 103 and note
Curzon, Frank 216
Daily Telegraph 176
Dalrymple, Mrs 83
Dannreuther, Edward 84
Darlington, W.A. 58, 64, 69, 70, 118, 146, 178
Dashwood, Sir Francis 131
Davies, Peter Llewelyn, and Barrie’s marriage to Mary Ansell 121
Dickson, Dorothy 224
Doubleday, Ellen 268, 270-1, 272-3, 280, 288
Doubleday, Nelson 270-1
Douglas, Claire 134
Doyle, Arthur Conan 103, 120-1
The Adventures of Sherlock
Holmes 120
D’Oyly Carte Opera Company 117, 118
du Maurier, Angela 217, 218, 223-4, 225, 226, 254, 257, 258, 260
du Maurier, Beatrice ‘Trixy’ 14, 99, 101, 106, 222, 254
du Maurier, Daphne
adopts fantasy persona 230
affairs with women 255, 257, 268, 270-1, 272-4, 276-7
alchemic texts 252-3, 263, 268, 275
at Ferryside, Cornwall 257-9, 260, 264
autobiographical nature of her stories and novels 31-4, 35-6
and avoidance of serious topics 102
and Barrie’s alchemic treatment of Sylvia and George 162
and Barrie’s boy-cult 219-22, 264, 268, 276
and Barrie’s hypnotic methods 169-70, 175
and Barrie’s relationship with the Llewelyn Davies family 167
builds altar in basement of Kilmarth 289
character of 39, 223, 257
comment on Michael’s nightmares 202-3
comments on her grandfather 81, 82, 87, 107
confesses her affairs to Tommy 280
and death of Arthur Llewelyn Davies 186
and death of Barrie 265
and death of Michael 244-5
and death of Peter 30
dislike of theatrical world 223
and dreaming true 34, 109-11
and note, 115, 150-1, 222, 227-8, 266-7
dual personality of 278
early love affairs 254, 258-9
experiences symptoms of a breakdown 278, 279, 280, 281-3
faith and optimism in the power of texts 292
family background 27, 39
Faustian allusions in her stories 131-2 and note, 276 and note
feelings for Jack 14
final years 289-92
as friend of Viola Tree 153
and her fear of facing reality 280
and idea of suicide as a result of anger 286-7
incestuous nature of relationship with her father 225-31, 253-5, 257, 258-9, 262, 263, 264
and island motif 169-70
and Jack’s depression 17
and Jungian ideas 134, 278
life in London 29-30
love of fairy tales 218-19
marriage to ‘Boy’ Browning 29, 263, 270
memories of her father 214, 215, 219
moves from Menabilly to Kilmarth 288
and other world knowledge 289-90, 291-2
poems by 255, 256, 257, 289-90
and the psychic arts 244
reaction to Dear Brutus 225
relationship with Barrie 217, 219-22, 256-8, 259, 262, 263, 264, 273, 274, 276, 280, 289
renewed contact with Peter 27-9
and sense of beauty 255-6
and sense of the past in the present 260-1
and the story of the Snow Queen 218-19, 279, 280
suffers a breakdown 272-3
takes long lease on Menabilly 27, 269
talent for mockery 101, 102
and Tommy’s infidelity and illness 279
in trance-like state 270, 274-5
travels to Egypt 264
works by:
‘The Alibi’ 32
The Apple Tree 31, 34 and note, 150n, 275-6, 277
‘The Archduchess’ 34, 35-6
‘The Blue Lenses’ 33
‘A Borderline Case’ 227
The Breaking Point 30-1, 31, 34, 35-6, 244, 280
Castle Dor 288-9
‘The Chamois’ 282-3
‘Don’t Look Now’ 291
The du Mauriers 244n
Frenchman’s Creek 39, 110, 268
‘Ganymede’ 31-2
Gerald: A Portrait 214, 215, 219, 226, 244n, 259
The House on the Strand 289
Hungry Hill 268
I’ll Never Be Young Again 230, 262
The Infernal World of Branwell Brontë 283-6, 288
Jamaica Inn 264
King’s General 269
‘Kiss Me Again, Stranger’ 34, 277
‘The Little Photographer’ 276n
The Loving Spirit 261-2
‘The Menace’ 32-3, 33-4
‘Monte Verita’ 34, 275-6
My Cousin Rachel 39, 274-5, 276, 279
Myself When Young 219, 226n, 244n
The Parasites 217-18
‘The Pool’ 244-5
The Progress of Julius 39, 227-8, 229-30, 253-4, 255, 262-3, 264
Rebecca 110, 265, 266-72
Rule Britannia 289
The Scapegoat 39, 227, 264, 278, 279
‘The Seekers’ 252-3
September Tide 273
Vanishing Cornwall 289
du Maurier, Ellen 55, 78-9, 80, 81, 85, 86
du Maurier, Emma (née Clarke) 129
du Maurier, Emma (née Wightwick) 35, 55, 56, 81, 82-3, 87, 102, 153, 159, 187, 190-1, 193, 196, 197, 222
du Maurier, Eugene 159
du Maurier, George ‘Kicky’ 97
marriage of daughter, Sylvia 4
artistic set of 18
personality change after marriage 27, 35
dual personality of 34, 106
and hypnotism 34-5, 104, 105, 106-7, 108-9, 7, 134-5
birth and childhood 40-2
character of 42-3, 45
trains to be an artist 43, 44-5, 50
and love of music 45, 100, 101, 118, 153, 154
friendship with Felix Moscheles 50-3, 55-6
suffers a detached retina 50, 55
effect of hypnosis on 51-5, 85-7
and love of pretty women 51, 52, 55-6
as a Romantic 53-5, 133, 134-5, 140, 144, 151, 221
arrival in London 56-7, 78
and the Tulse Hill group 78-81
illness of 80-1, 85-7
begins to receive magazine commissions 81-2
courts Emma Wightwick 81
and note Emma’s influence on 82-3, 87
and the Little Holland House group 83-4
marriage to Emma 87, 98
as aspirational Englishman 98-9
works for Punch 98-100
‘A Ballad of Blunders’ 99n
‘the Brown family 99-100
‘English Society at Home’ 99
‘The Legend of Camelot’ 99
friendship with Henry James 100-2
moves to New Grove House, Hampstead 100
talent for mockery 101
and the ‘bench of confidences’ 102, 104
joins the Rabelais club 102-3
and fantasy 106
takes a furnished house at Bayswater Terrace 106
and note and dreaming true 107, 108-9, 110-15, 227-8, 260
influence on Barrie 116-20, 207
relationship with Sylvia 123
replies to Arthur’s request to marry Sylvia 126-7
lukewarm feelings toward Arthur Llewelyn Davies 129
anti-Christian views 130
and note and source of ‘curate’s egg’ cartoon 130n
and Satanism, alchemy, psychoanalysis 133
and the unconscious mind 133-4
mental decline of 143-5
death and cremation of 145, 183, 222
description of 151
attends the Lewis’s parties 153-4, 159, 161, 162-3, 164, 202, 222n, 262
and idea of boyishness 221-2
and the psychic arts 244
plaque in Great Russell Street 288
works by:
The Martian 81n, 150, 229
Peter Ibbetson 106-7, 108-9, 110-15, 116-17, 123, 133-4, 146, 156, 161, 170-1, 228-9, 243, 289, 291
Trilby 31, 45-50, 52, 82 and note, 84, 85, 87, 104, 105, 106, 119, 134-5, 139-43, 144 and note, 145, 146, 147
du Maurier, Gerald 14, 23
acts in Barrie’s plays 27, 153, 177, 193, 206n, 213-16, 223, 224-6, 242
as ‘third class carriage’ in father’s cartoon 99
as practical joker 101
at Harrow 106, 213, 214
character of 126, 213
prevents Sylvia marrying Philip Burne-Jones 126
and cremation of his father 145
affair with Mrs Patrick Campbell 213
marriage to Muriel Beaumont 213-14
as possible homosexual 214, 231
relationship with Barrie 214-17, 220, 222, 256, 262, 293-4
offered actor-management deal 216
relationship with his children 219-22, 225-31
writes a poem for his daughter Daphne 220-1, 222
moves to Cannon Hall, Hampstead Heath 222-3, 228
incestuous nature of relationship with Daphne 225-31, 253-5, 257, 258-9, 262, 263, 264
and family inheritance of dreaming true 227-8
and death of Michael 250, 251
given a knighthood 250
suffers from melancholy and depression 258, 259
death of 264
du Maurier, Guy 25, 99, 101, 106, 126, 145, 153, 205, 222
du Maurier, Isabel 81 du Maurier, Jeanne 230, 254, 255-6, 258, 265
du Maurier, Louis Mathurin Busson 39-40, 42, 43
du Maurier, Marie Espinasse 159
du Maurier, Marie Louise ‘May’ 99, 101, 106, 159, 209, 229
du Maurier, Muriel ‘Mo’ (née Beaumont) 213-14, 225, 250, 259, 265, 280
du Maurier, Robert Busson 39, 56
du Maurier, Sylvia see Llewelyn Davies, Sylvia
Dumfries Herald 62-3
Dundas, Robert 238-9, 245
Dundee Courier and Argus 72
Duquesne, Le Major 42, 102, 116
Edinburgh Evening Dispatch 94
Edward, Prince of Wales 153
Emery, Winifred 157
The Emperor’s New Clothes (H.C. Andersen) 23 and note
Esher, Lord 152
Eton College Chronicle 206
Fantin-Latour, Henri 78
Farr, Diana 188
Faust 75, 93, 130-4, 150, 154, 177, 208, 276
Fjågesund, Peter 293, 294
Ford, H.J. 123
Ford, Reverend Lionel 234
Forster, Margaret 31, 33, 169, 217, 220, 231, 253, 273, 285, 286
Foster, John 118n
Frampton, Sir George 178
Frazer, Sir James, The Golden Bough 162
Freud, Sigmund 108, 132 and note, 134, 142-3, 170
Freyberg, General Bernard 10, 11, 65-6, 210
Frohman, Charles 176
Furze, Charles 94
Galloway, Robert 66-7
Gaskell, Elizabeth 95
Sylvia’s Lovers 98
Gaskell, Matthew 240
Gay, Florence 187
Gerin, Winifred 286
Gibb, Geraldine see Llewelyn Davies, Geraldine ‘Gerrie’
Gilbert, Jeannie 279n
Gilbert, W.S. 118-19
Gilmour, Thomas 69, 96, 203
Gleyre, Charles 43, 44, 83n, 140
Goddard, Theodore 11
Goethe, J.W. von, Faust 131-4, 154n, 177 and note, 276 and note
Gollancz, Victor 34, 276
Gordon, Stuart 61-2
Gosse, Edmund 101
Granada Publishing Group 8
Granville Barker, Harley 189
Great Ormond Street Hospital 10, 252
Greenaway, Kate 95, 107
Greenwood, Frederick 91-2
Grundy, Sydney, An Old Jew 213
Guinness, Alec 278
Hamilton Advisor 72
Hammerton, J.A., Barrie: The Story of a Genius 71
Hampstead and Highgate Express 145
Harding, James 23-4
Hardy, Thomas 102, 103, 118n, 121
The Hand of Ethelberta 99
Harper’s Monthly 139
Hawkins, Anthony 123
Heinemann 261
Hendy-Freegard, Robert 271-2
Henley, Lionel Charles ‘Bill’ 79-80
Henley, Margaret 94
Henley, W.E. 94, 118n
Henry, Norma Douglas 175, 209
Hewlett, Maurice 189
Hibbert, H.G. 69, 92
Hicks, Seymour 8-9
Hitchcock, Alfred 264
Hodgson, Jenny 195-6
Hodgson, Mary
takes boys to Kensington Gardens 4
informed of Peter’s suicide 7
learns of Peter’s financial situation 10
and relationship of JMB with the Llewelyn Davieses 12-13 and note
and Peter’s decision to write a family history 15
and the du Maurier grandfather 27
resents Barrie’s intrusion on her life 156-7
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