• J.M. Barrie – the boy who stayed eternally young

    Peter Pan and the Admiral Crichton are the two memorable successes of novelist and playwright J.M.Barrie whose birthday was yesterday in 1860. Born at 6.30am in Kirriemuir, Scotland, he was the ninth child of ten in a Calvinist family of a modestly successful weaver. He was, in the way of those days in Scotland, exceptionally well educated at school, spending some time away from home. The significant event of his childhood which marked his life and paradoxically led to his greatest triumph

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