1897. Barrie, Scottish journalist, playwright, and children's book writer, became world famous with his play and story about Peter Pan. Along with The Admirable Crichton, Quality Street is considered one of Barrie's two best plays. In Margaret Ogilvy Barrie reminisces about his mother. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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Curious, puzzling, vivid,
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JM Barrie wrote this curious memoir of his mother after her death. I don't know much about Barrie's personal life, I found it psychologically qute strange. He seemed obsessed with the idea of being her son and being close to her, yearning for her to mother him and to remain forever a little boy. (Yes - this was the writer of Peter Pan all right). He gives a vivid pictures of a provocative, strong minded, intelligent Scotswoman who wanted things very much HER way and was extremely mysterious and hard to pin down. Yet Barrie clearly got a great deal out of his relationship with her and genuinely loved her. This touching book made me feel there was a great deal more to find out about Barrie and now I want to read more about him. I do recommend this book.
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ON the day I was born we bought six hair-bottomed chairs, and in our little house it was an event, the first great victory in a woman's long campaign; how they had been laboured for, the pound-note and the thirty threepenny bits they cost, what anxiety there was about the purchase, the show they made in possession of the west room, my father's unnatural coolness when he brought them in (but his face was white) - I so often heard the tale afterwards, and shared as boy and man in so many similar triumphs, that the coming of the chairs seems to be something I remember, as if I had jumped out of bed on that first day, and run ben to see how they looked. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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ON the day I was born we bought six hair-bottomed chairs, and in our little house it was an event, the first great victory in a woman's long campaign; how they had been laboured for, the pound-note and the thirty threepenny bits they cost, what anxiety there was about the purchase, the show they made in possession of the west room, my father's unnatural coolness when he brought them in (but his face was white) - I so often heard the tale afterwards, and shared as boy and man in so many similar triumphs, that the coming of the chairs seems to be something I remember, as if I had jumped out of bed on that first day, and run ben to see how they looked. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
christening robe, long parks, soft face Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Auld Licht, Margaret Ogilvy, Santa Claus, Home Rule New!
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- The Master of Ballantrae (Dover Thrift Editions) by Robert Louis Stevenson on page 132, page 137, and page 142
- Hide-and-Seek with Angels: A Life of J. M. Barrie by Lisa Chaney on 22 pages
- J. M. Barrie and the Lost Boys: The Real Story Behind Peter Pan by Andrew Birkin on 21 pages
- Fantasies of Flight by Daniel M. Ogilvie on 18 pages
- Kensington Gardens: A Novel by Rodrigo Fresan on 18 pages
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