A number of smaller collections have also been consulted, their owners being acknowledged in the Introduction. In addition I have drawn extensively from my own taped interviews, and correspondence carried out between 1975 and 1978 by Sharon Goode and myself.
PUBLISHED SOURCES
Barrie's own works:
The majority of Barrie's books and plays were published in Great Britain by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, the exceptions being Better Dead (Swan Sonnenschein); The Little Minister [novel], Sentimental Tommy, Tommy and Grizel (Cassell); Neil and Tintinnabulum (privately printed 1925, subsequently included in Cynthia Asquith's The Flying Carpet, Partridge, 1925); The Greenwood Hat, The Boy David, M‘Connachie and J.M.B.: Speeches by J. M. Barrie, The Letters of J. M. Barrie (Peter Davies). An incomplete list of Barrie's numerous contributions to newspapers and periodicals appears in A Bibliography of the Writings of Sir James Matthew Barrie Bart., O.M. by Herbert Garland (The Bookman's Journal, 1928) and Sir James Matthew Barrie: A Bibliography by B. D. Cutler (Greenberg, New York, 1931). My extracts have been taken from photo-copies of the original articles supplied by the Colindale Newspaper Library. A useful ‘Barrie Book List’ is given by Roger Lancelyn Green in his brief but excellent monograph. J. M. Barrie (Bodley Head, 1960). There is no single ‘authorized’ version of Barrie's plays, since the author delighted in revising his texts after they had appeared in print. The majority are available in three different versions: an acting edition, published by Samuel French Ltd.; a semi-novelized version, published individually as part of the 23-volume Uniform Edition of the Works and Plays of J. M. Barrie between 1913 and 1937 by Hodder & Stoughton, Cassell, and Peter Davies Ltd.; and, thirdly, in script format in The Definitive Edition of the Plays of J. M. Barrie (Hodder & Stoughton, 1942). Excerpts quoted in this book have been taken from the last, unless otherwise stated. Barrie's speeches, with the exceptions of Courage and The Entrancing Life, were gathered together in 1938 as M‘Connachie and J.M.B.: Speeches by J. M. Barrie (Peter Davies); the texts often differ from contemporary transcriptions in The Times and other newspapers, which in turn deviate from the actual words spoken – evidenced by certain speeches recorded on Movietone and Pathé newsreels. My excerpts have been taken from the Peter Davies compilation. Similar problems of consistency occur with Barrie's novels, where the US and British texts often differ: my extracts are from the latter. The novelization of Peter Pan, first published as Peter and Wendy (Hodder & Stoughton, 1911), has been re-titled Peter Pan (currently in Puffin paperback), but should not be confused with ‘retold’ – i.e. simplified – versions masquerading under the same title.
Select Bibliography:
The following books and articles have also been consulted. In particular, Denis Mackail's encyclopaedic biography, The Story of J.M.B., has been of inestimable help. The only other biographies of similar standing are W. A. Darlington's highly perceptive J. M. Barrie, and Janet Dunbar's more recent J. M. Barrie: The Man Behind the Image. An asterisk indicates those works from which I have quoted, and I am grateful to their respective publishers for permission to do so. Publication dates are for Great Britain, unless otherwise stated.
ADLARD, ELEANOR (ED): *Dear Turley (Muller, 1942)
AGATE, JAMES: Those Were the Nights (Hutchinson, 1946)
ANSELL, MARY: Happy Houses (Cassell, 1912)
—*The Happy Garden (Cassell, 1912)
—*Dogs and Men (Duckworth, 1923)
ASQUITH, CYNTHIA: Haply I May Remember (Barrie, 1950)
—*Portrait of Barrie (Barrie, 1954)
—Diaries: 1915–1918 (Hutchinson, 1968)
BEATON, CECIL: *Contribution to The Rise and Fall of the Matinée Idol, edited by Anthony Curtis (Weidenfeld 1974)
BEERBOHM, MAX: *Last Theatres (Hart-Davis, 1970)
BLAKE, GEORGE: *Barrie and the Kailyard School (Barker, 1951)
BLOW, SYDNEY: *Through Stage Doors (Chambers, 1958)
BOOTHBY, LORD: *My Yesterday, Your Tomorrow (Hutchinson, 1962)
—My Oxford (Contribution) Edited by Ann Thwaite (Robson Books, 1977)
BRAYBROOKE, PATRICK: Barrie: A Study in Fairies and Mortals (Dranes, 1924)
CARDUS, NEVILLE: Autobiography (Collins, 1947)
CARRINGTON, DORA: *Letters and Diaries, edited by David Garnett (Cape, 1975)
CHALMERS, PATRICK: The Barrie Inspiration (Peter Davies, 1938)
CHASE, PAULINE: *Peter Pan's Postbag (Heinemann, 1909)
—My Reminiscences of Peter Pan (Strand Magazine, Jan. 1913)
COCHRAN, CHARLES: Cock-a-Doodle-Do (Dent, 1941)
COMPTON, FAY: Rosemary: Some Remembrances (Rivers, 1926)
COVENEY, PETER: The Image of Childhood (Peregrine, 1967)
DARLINGTON, W. A.: *J. M. Barrie (Blackie, 1938)
DARTON, F. J. HARVEY: J. M. Barrie (Nisbet, 1929)
DU MAURIER, ANGELA: I'm Only the Sister (Peter Davies, 1949)
DU MAURIER, DAPHNE: *Gerald: A Portrait (Gollancz, 1934)
—The Du Mauriers (Gollancz, 1937)
—Growing Pains (Gollancz, 1977)
DU MAURIER, GUY: *Letters from Lieut.-Col. G. L. B. Du Maurier, D.S.O., 3rd Battalion Royal Fusiliers, To His Wife (Bumpus, 1915)
DUNBAR, JANET: *J. M. Barrie: The Man Behind the Image (Collins, 1970)
ELDER, MICHAEL: The Young James Barrie (Macdonald, 1968)
FARR, DIANA: *Gilbert Cannan: A Georgian Prodigy (Chatto, 1978)
FRASER, MORRIS: The Death of Narcissus (Secker & Warburg, 1976)
GEDULD, HARRY M.: Sir James M. Barrie (Twayne, New York, 1971)
GREEN, ROGER LANCELYN: *Fifty Years of Peter Pan (Peter Davies, 1954)
—J. M. Barrie (Bodley Head, 1960)
HAMMERTON, J. A.: J. M. Barrie and His Books (Marshall, 1900)
—*Barrie: The Story of a Genius (Sampson Low, 1929)
—Barrieland: A Thrums Pilgrimage (Sampson Low, 1931)
HICKS, SEYMOUR: Between Ourselves (Cassell, 1930)
HOLROYD, MICHAEL: *Lytton Strachey: A Biography (Penguin, 1971)
KENNEDY, JOHN: Thrums and the Barrie Country (Cranton, 1930)
KENNETT, LADY: *Self Portrait of an Artist (Murray, 1949)
LEWIS, C. DAY: *The Buried Day (Chatto, 1960)
LOWNDES, MARIE B.: *Diaries and Letters, edited by Susan Lowndes (Chatto, 1971)
LUCAS, AUDREY: *E. V. Lucas: A Portrait (Methuen, 1939)
LURIE, ALISON: The Boy Who Couldn't Grow Up (New York Review, Feb 1975)
LYTTON, THE EARL OF: Anthony (Peter Davies, 1935)
MACCARTHY, DESMOND: Theatre (Kee, 1954)
MACKAIL, DENIS: *The Story of J.M.B. (Peter Davies, 1941)
MACLEOD, BETTY: *Contribution to Norland Place School, 1876–1976, edited by Joan Keene (Old Norlanders Association, 1976)
MARCOSSIN, I. & DANIEL FROHMAN: *Charles Frohman: Manager and Man (Bodley Head, New York, 1915)
MASON, A. E. W.: *‘James Barrie’ (Article in Dictionary of National Biography, O.U.P. 1949)
MAUDE, CYRIL: Behind the Scenes with Cyril Maude (Murray, 1927)
MAUDE, PAMELA: *Worlds Away (Heinemann, 1964)
MEREDITH, GEORGE: Letters of George Meredith, edited by His Son (Constable, 1912)
MILLINGTON-DRAKE, EUGEN: Hugh Macnaghten's House Record, Eton: 1899–1920 (Ballantyne, 1930)
MORRELL, OTTOLINE: Ottoline: The Early Memoirs of Lady Ottoline Morrell 1873–1915, edited by Robert Gathorne-Hardy (Faber, 1963)
MOULT, THOMAS: Barrie (Cape, 1928)
ORMOND, LEONEE: George du Maurier (Routledge, 1969)
ROBBINS, PHYLLIS : *Maude Adams: An Intimate Portrait (Putnam, New York, 1956)
ROY, JAMES A.: *James Matthew Barrie: An Appreciation (Jarrolds, 1937)
RUSSELL, BERTRAND: *The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, 1872–1914 (Unwin, 1967)
SCOTT, PETER: *The Eye of the Wind (Hodder & Stoughton, 1961)
SHELTON, GEORGE: It's Smee (Ernest Benn, 1928)
STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS: *The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson,
edited by Sir Sidney Colvin, 5 vol. (Heinemann, 1924)
TERRISS, ELLALINE: Just a Little Bit of String (Hutchinson, 1955)
TERRY, ELLEN: Memoirs (Gollancz, 1933)
THOMAS, GWENDOLEN: ‘Barrie and Hanny’ (John o'London, Jun.–Nov. 1953)
TREWIN, J. C.: The Edwardian Theatre (Blackwell, 1966)
—The Theatre since 1900 (Dakers, 1968)
VANBRUGH, IRENE: *To Tell My Story (Hutchinson, 1948)
WALBROOK, H. M.: *J. M. Barrie and the Theatre (F. V. White, 1922)
WALKLEY, A.B.: *Drama and Life (Methuen, 1922)
Source notes
Chapter 1 (1860–1885)
1. All quoted extracts in this chapter are from Margaret Ogilvy (Hodder & Stoughton, 1896) unless otherwise indicated below.
2. Barrie, The Greenwood Hat (privately printed, 1930), pp. 1–2.
3. Barrie, Sentimental Tommy (Cassell, 1896), p. 335.
4. Barrie, Peter and Wendy (Hodder & Stoughton, 1911), p. 10.
5. Speech at the Prize-Giving at Dumfries Academy, 30 June 1893: M‘Connachie and J.M.B.: Speeches by J. M. Barrie (Peter Davies, 1938), p. 4. Hereafter referred to as Speeches.
6. Speech on being awarded the Freedom of Dumfries, 11 December 1924. Speeches, pp. 83–4.
7. The Greenwood Hat, pp. 64, 67.
8. Dumfries Herald, 24 January 1877.
9. Prize-Giving at Dumfries Academy, Speeches, pp. 5–6.
10. See Sources: Unpublished Sources, 2.
11. Freedom of Dumfries, Speeches, p. 88.
12. ibid., pp. 88–9.
13. Mackail, The Story of J.M.B., p. 44.
14. ibid.
15. Hammerton, Barrie: The Story of a Genius, p. 74.
16. The Greenwood Hat, pp. 132, 134, 214.
17. Nottingham Journal, 28 January 1884.
18. The Greenwood Hat, p. 7.
Chapter 2 (1885–1894)
1. Speech at the Authors' Club Dinner, 12 December 1932. Speeches, pp. 248–9.
2. The Greenwood Hat, p. 178.
3. Blake, Barrie and the Kailyard School, p. 64.
4. Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, IV, p. 273.
5. ibid., p. 274.
6. Speech to the Incorporated Society of Authors, Playwrights and Composers, 28 November 1928. Speeches, p. 156.
7. Peter and Wendy, p. 267.
8. Edinburgh Evening Dispatch, 6 November 1889.
9. Letter to Mrs Fred Oliver, 21 December 1931.
10. Jerome, My Life and Times, p. 133.
11. Letter to Maarten Maartens, 20 November 1893.
12. British Weekly, 19 May 1892.
13. Edinburgh Evening Dispatch, 21 September 1887.
Chapter 3 (1894–1897)
1. Sketch, 4 July 1894.
2. Ansell, Dogs and Men, p. 26.
3. Letter to Cynthia Asquith, 10 November 1935.
4. Unpublished, in the possession of the Quiller-Couch family.
5. Margaret Ogilvy, pp. 193–4.
6. ibid., pp. 201–2.
7. Letter to Maarten Maartens, 17 December 1893.
8. Letter to Quiller-Couch, 26 March 1895.
9. Marcossin and Frohman, Charles Frohman, pp. i–iv, 255.
10. ibid., p. iii.
11. Tommy and Grizel: reproduced as a frontispiece to Vol. IV of the American Peter Pan Edition of The Works of J. M. Barrie (Scribner, 1929).
12. Maude, Worlds Away, pp. 137–45.
13. Robbins, Maude Adams, p. 41.
14. Told by Barrie to Peter Llewelyn Davies's wife, Margaret.
Chapter 4 (The Davies Family)
1. Quoted by Peter Davies in his Morgue. See Sources: Unpublished Sources, 1.
2. Millar, George du Maurier, p. 34.
3. Letter from du Maurier to Tom Armstrong, 25 March 1890.
4. Letter from Dolly Ponsonby (née Parry) to Peter Davies, December 1946.
5. Entry in Dolly Ponsonby's diary, see Sources: Unpublished Sources, 10.
6. Daphne du Maurier, Gerald, p. 71.
7. Dolly Ponsonby to Peter Davies, op, cit.
8. Peter Pan, Act I.
Chapter 5 (1898–1900)
1. Letter to Quiller-Couch, 12 February 1899.
2. ibid., 11 December 1896.
Chapter 6 (1900–1901)
1. Mackail, The Story of J.M.B., p. 300.
2. Maude, Worlds Away, pp. 144–5.
3. Mackail, The Story of J.M.B., p. 306. All further extracts and quotations by Denis Mackail come from this source.
4. Barrie, The Little White Bird (Hodder & Stoughton, 1902), p. 110.
Chapter 7 (1901–1904)
1. Ansell, Dogs and Men, p. 42.
2. Dedication to Peter Pan.
3. ibid.
4. Letter from Mary Hodgson to Nico Davies, November 1946.
Chapter 8 (1904–1905)
1. Robbins, Maude Adams, p. 90.
2. Marcossin and Frohman, Charles Frohman, p. 362.
3. Blow, Through Stage Doors, p. 162.
4. Green, Fifty Years of Peter Pan, p. 73.
5. Blow, op. cit., p. 162.
6. Dedication to Peter Pan.
7. Anon: A Play. See Sources: Unpublished Sources, 9.
8. Mackail, The Story of J.M.B., p. 368.
9. Green, op. cit., p. 89.
10. Daphne du Maurier, Gerald, p. 110.
11. Lucas, E. V. Lucas, pp. 76–7.
12. Peter and Wendy, pp. 202–3.
13. Unpublished draft of the Dedication to Peter Pan.
Chapter 9 (1905–1906)
1. Letter from Dolly Ponsonby to Peter Davies, December 1946.
2. Taped interview with Geraldine Llewelyn Davies, March 1976.
3. Dolly Ponsonby to Peter Davies, op. cit.
4. The Morgue. All other comments by Peter Davies are from the same source, unless otherwise indicated.
5. Daphne du Maurier, to the author, March 1976.
6. Robbins, Maude Adams, pp. 90–1.
7. Mackail, The Story of J.M.B., p. 379.
8. Daphne du Maurier, Gerald, p. 111.
9. Unpublished draft of the Dedication to Peter Pan.
10. Robbins, op. cit., p. 93.
11. The Times, 1 June 1906.
Chapter 10 (1906–1907)
1. Daphne du Maurier, to the author, March 1976.
2. Chase, Peter Pan's Postbag, p. 19.
Chapter 11 (1907–1908)
1. Dedication to Peter Pan.
2. Blow, Through Stage Doors, p. 166.
3. Taped interview with Geraldine Llewelyn Davies, March 1976. All other comments by Gerrie are from this source.
4. Letter from Nico Llewelyn Davies to the author, 1976. All other comments by Nico are from letters written by him to the author or his co-researcher between 1975 and 1978.
5. Diana Farr, Gilbert Cannan, p. 30.
6. Beerbohm, Last Theatres, p. 387.
Chapter 12 (1908–1910)
1. Taped interview with Geraldine Llewelyn Davies, March 1976.
2. Letter to Sylvia, 3 April 1909.
3. The Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail, 14 October 1909.
4. Letter to Pauline Chase, 8 October 1909.
5. Darlington, J. M. Barrie, p. 109.
6. Will Meredith to Scribner, 9 November 1909.
7. Roger Lancelyn Green, to the author, December 1975.
8. Barrie, Neil and Tintinnabulum, p. 65.
9. Dunbar, J. M. Barrie: The Man Behind the Image, p. 181.
10. Mary Barrie to H. G. Wells, 21 October 1909.
11. Interview in Homes & Gardens, Aug–Nov 1942.
12. Taped interview with Mrs Norma Douglas Henry, March 1978.
13. Letter from Dolly Ponsonby to Peter Davies, December 1946.
14. Mackail, The Story of J.M.B., p. 426.
15. Letter from Medina Lewis to the author, June 1977.
16. Letter to Peter Davies, 1952.
17. Interview with Geraldine Llewelyn Davies, op. cit.
C
hapter 13 (1910–1914)
1. Neil and Tintinnabulum, pp. 77–8.
2. Speech to Wallasey High School for Girls, 26 February 1924. Speeches, p. 64.
3. Day Lewis, The Buried Day, pp. 72–4.
4. Taped interview with Sebastian Earl, May 1976.
5. Letter to Quiller-Couch, 7 March 1911.
6. Barrie's Notebook dated 6 October 1926.
7. Address to St Andrews University, 3 May 1922. Courage, p. 32.
8. Neil and Tintinnabulum, p. 93
9. Letter to Elizabeth Lucas, 17 October 1920.
10. Letter from Peter Davies to Mary Hodgson, 11 June 1953.
11. Taped interview with Norma Douglas Henry, March 1978.
12. Beaton, The Rise and Fall of the Matinée Idol, p. 55.
Chapter 14 (1914–1915)
1. Neil and Tintinnabulum, p. 95.
2. Dictionary of National Biography, article on Barrie.
3. Letter to Pauline Chase, 24 December 1914.
4. Dedication to Peter Pan.
5. Macnaghten, Fifty Years of Eton, p. 84.
Chapter 15 (1915–1917)
1. Marcossin and Frohman, Charles Frohman, p. 384.
2. ibid., p. 386.
3. ibid., p. 182.
4. Letter to Pauline Chase, 12 May 1915.
5. Taped interview, April 1976.
6. Taped interview, May 1976.
7. Letter from Medina Lewis to the author, September 1977.
8. Unpublished draft of the Dedication to Peter Pan.
9. Letter from Medina Lewis to the author, November 1977.
10. Letter to Kathleen Scott, 2 April 1917.
11. Thomas Hardy to Barrie, 24 June 1917.
12. Letter to Charles Turley Smith, 15 July 1917.
13. Asquith, Portrait of Barrie, p. 59.
14. Macnaghten, Fifty Years of Eton, p. 86.
Chapter 16 (1917–1921)
1. Letter from Nico to the author, January 1976.
2. Letter from Mary Hill to the author, January 1977.
3. Article in The Times, 21 May 1921.
4. Darlington, J. M. Barrie, p. 119.
5. Letter to Charles Turley Smith, 11 March 1918.
6. Letter to Nico, 9 May 1918.
7. Letter to Elizabeth Lucas, 12 May 1918.
8. Article in The Times, 21 May 1921.
9. Letters to Nico, 2, 23, 25 February, 10 March 1919.
10. Taped interview with Lord Boothby, December 1976.
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