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Neverland

Page 39

by Piers Dudgeon


  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
/>   and du Maurier family reception of Arthur Llewelyn Davies 129

  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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