6/12/2023 0 Comments Peter pan barrieYoung James and his mother “read many books together when I was a boy, " Robinson Crusoe" being the first (and second)….” Margaret encouraged his growing literary interest and imagination, and James often questioned Margaret about her childhood and the people she had known. Sign up to British Heritage Travel's daily newsletter here! The two upstairs rooms included the kitchen and a bedroom. A few years after James’ birth, his father rented a nearby shop for his business, and Margaret turned that room into a parlour. David Barrie was a better than- average weaver and housed his loom and yarn store on the bottom floor of the family’s two-storey house. (Following Scottish custom, she retained her maiden name.) He was born on 9th May 1860 at home in “The Tenements” at 9 Brechin Road in the small Scottish town of Kirriemuir, where the main industry was linen weaving. It would be another 33 years before that inspiration emerged in the shape of "Peter Pan", but here was the germ, rooted in his mind and soul from the age of six.” Barrie’s mother never recovered from the tragedy, and young James strived to replace his brother, even wearing his sibling’s clothing.īarrie was the ninth of ten children born to David Barrie and Margaret Ogilvy. According to Barrie biographer Andrew Birkin, while the boys’ mother “drew a measure of comfort from the notion that, in dying a boy, would remain a boy forever, Barrie drew inspiration.
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