J. M. BARRIE

*1860 +1937

London 

Sir James Mathew Barrie

He wrote Peter Pan

He was journalist

  

His family was rich.

His brother David died at the age of 13. He was the favourite son of his mother.

His mother ignored James. She used to say. ‘Are you David? … Oh, it’s only you!’

His father didn’t have any contact with children.

Barrie wanted to be loved and this would have a great influence on his life.

When he became an adult, he was short. Nearly the 1,50 metres.

Psychologists say this is caused because of mental disorders based on the desire of being a child forever.

When Barrie goes out home and moves to London, his mind opens and he is ready to write.

He was friend of Arthur Conan Doyle and Robert Louis Stevenson.

He married to an actress. It didn’t work because 1) She didn’t love him, but for his social position 2) He only wanted a mother, not a lover.

Peter Pan was performed in 1904 for the first time. It was called Wendy, in reference to a dead 5 years old girl whose name was Margaret Henley, but, as she couldn’t spell it correctly, she said something as ‘Fwendy’.

Barrie wrote the book in 1911.

James met a family.

The parents died and he became responsible of all the children.

Two of them died: George one in the First World War. Michael drowns in a river at the age of 21, with his friend and maybe true love Rupert. Peter jumped in front of a train at the age of 63.

James didn’t like people to write his biography: ‘God kill everyone who writes a biography about me’.