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*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS *** With this eBook or online at Title: Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens Re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withĪlmost no restrictions whatsoever. Project Gutenberg's Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, by J. Before his death, he gave the rights to the Peter Pan works to Great Ormond Street Hospital, which continues to benefit from them.The Project Gutenberg E-text of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, by J. 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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