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Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?

J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish novelist and dramatist [James Matthew Barrie]
The Little White Bird, ch. 4 “A Night-Piece,” Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. 32 (1902-08)

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Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary? - J M Barrie

A quotation from J. M. Barrie

Wise children always choose a mother who was a shocking flirt in her maiden days, and so had several offers before she accepted their fortunate papa.

J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish novelist and dramatist [James Matthew Barrie]
The Little White Bird, ch. 19 “Joey,” Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. 32 (1902-11)

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A quotation from J. M. Barrie

With rapturous face he produces his pipes, and the Never birds and the fairies gather closer till the roof of the little house is so thick with his admirers that some of them fall down the chimney. He plays on and on till we wake up.

J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish novelist and dramatist [James Matthew Barrie]
Peter Pan, Act 5, closing lines (1904, pub. 1928)

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Peter [Pan] knew that there was not a moment to lose.

"Come," he cried imperiously, and soared out at once into the night, followed by John and Michael and Wendy.

Mr. and Mrs. Darling and Nana rushed into the nursery too late. The birds were flown.

- J. M. Barrie, "Peter and Wendy"
🎨 F. D. Bedford.

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Mr. and Mrs. Darling and Nana discover that the children have all flown away. An illustration for "Peter and Wendy" by F. D. Bedford.

In the novel, Captain Hook is a dark mirror of Peter Pan, as he never really grew up either. He went to Eton as a teenager, and is still obsessed with that school's values. Hook becomes almost suicidally depressed when he believes Eton would say he has "bad form."

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Captain Hook sits and thinks about his life. A photo of Robb Harwood in costume from a theatrical production of "Peter Pan."

A quotation from J. M. Barrie

As you look at Wendy, you may see her hair becoming white, and her figure little again, for all this happened long ago. Jane is now a common grown-up, with a daughter called Margaret; and every spring cleaning time, except when he forgets, Peter comes for Margaret and takes her to the Neverland, where she tells him stories about himself, to which he listens eagerly. When Margaret grows up she will have a daughter, who is to be Peter’s mother in turn; and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.

J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish novelist and dramatist [James Matthew Barrie]
Peter and Wendy, ch. 17 “When Wendy Grew Up” (1911)

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A quotation from J. M. Barrie

   “I am old, Peter. I am ever so much more than twenty. I grew up long ago.”
   “You promised not to!”
   “I couldn’t help it.”

J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish novelist and dramatist [James Matthew Barrie]
Peter and Wendy, ch. 17 “When Wendy Grew Up” (1911)

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A quotation from J. M. Barrie

“Why can’t you fly now, mother?”
“Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forget the way.”
“Why do they forget the way?”
“Because they are no longer gay and innocent and heartless. It is only the gay and innocent and heartless who can fly.”

J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish novelist and dramatist [James Matthew Barrie]
Peter and Wendy, ch. 17 “When Wendy Grew Up” [Jane to Wendy] (1911)

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Most people remember Peter Pan as the mischievous kid who could fly and never grow up. But what if the real story isn’t so lighthearted? What if Peter was the bad guy...

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A quotation from J. M. Barrie

WENDY: Oh! Peter, when Captain Hook carried us away —
PETER: Who’s Captain Hook? Is it a story? Tell it me.
WENDY: (aghast) Do you mean to say you’ve even forgotten Captain Hook, and how you killed him and saved all our lives?
PETER: (fidgeting) I forget them after I kill them.

J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish novelist and dramatist [James Matthew Barrie]
When Wendy Grew Up — An Afterthought (1908, publ. 1957)

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"In [Captain Hook's] dark nature there was a touch of the feminine, as in all the great pirates."
- J. M. Barrie, "Peter Pan"

Originally, J. M. Barrie toyed with the idea of Captain Hook in the "Peter Pan" play being played in drag by the same actress who played Mrs. Darling (the children's mother).

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Photo close-up of Dustin Hoffman as Captain Hook from Steven Spielberg's "Hook."

Queer Nostalgia & Island Time in JM Barrie & Compton Mackenzie

SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW 16/1 (2024)

Dr Timothy C. Baker on JM Barrie’s MARY ROSE (1920) & Compton Mackenzie’s 2 portraits of queer life on Capri: VESTAL FIRE (1927), & EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN (1928)

Free online via Project MUSE

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https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/243/article/930909

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Studies of queer temporality, both in Scottish literature & more generally, have emphasised the importance of non-linear time & questions of futurity. Scottish texts of the 1920s, however, present a different view, where the rejection of compulsory heterosexuality, at the very least, is historically situated. J. M. Barrie’s Mary Rose (1920) juxtaposes multiple timelines to suggest the possibility of rejecting traditional family & gender relations, while Compton Mackenzie’s two portraits of queer life on Capri, Vestal Fire (1927) & Extraordinary Women (1928), present the international community there as located firmly in the past. Both authors specifically posit islands, real or fictional, as places of transformation & exploration. Islands not only have their own time, but a unique relation to questions of sexuality. While Barrie & Mackenzie’s texts, when discussed at all, are seen as fundamentally conservative & predominantly read in relation to the authors’ biographies, this article suggests that their overlooked status in current conversations about queer literature & history is itself productive. In both geographic & historical setting the works emphasise peripherality & non-integration. They are, following Lauren Berlant’s recent work, inconvenient texts, & texts about inconvenience. Taking such texts seriously, & emphasising the value of literature, & lives, that remain outliers, demonstrates new interpretive possibilities for the study of queer Scottish literature.

Captain Hook "had been at a famous public school. Its traditions still clung to him.... Above all he retained the passion for good form. Good form! However much he may have degenerated, he still knew that this is all that really matters."
- J. M. Barrie, "Peter Pan"
🎨 Trina Schart Hyman

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Peter Pan duels Captain Hook on the deck of Hook's ship. Illustration by Trina Schart Hyman.

A quotation from J. M. Barrie

MRS. DARLING: I thought all the fairies were dead.

WENDY: (almost reprovingly) No indeed! Their mothers drop the babies into the Never birds’ nests, all mixed up with the eggs, and the mauve fairies are boys and the white ones are girls, and there are some colours who don’t know what they are.

J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish novelist and dramatist [James Matthew Barrie]
Peter Pan, Act 5 (1904, pub. 1928)

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Queer Nostalgia & Island Time in JM Barrie & Compton Mackenzie

SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW 16/1 (2024)

Dr Timothy C. Baker on JM Barrie’s MARY ROSE (1920) & Compton Mackenzie’s 2 portraits of queer life on Capri: VESTAL FIRE (1927), & EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN (1928)

Free online via Project MUSE

@litstudies

3/4

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/243/article/930909

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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Then [Wendy] turned up the light, and Peter saw. He gave a cry of pain; and when the tall beautiful creature stooped to lift him in her arms, he drew back sharply.

"What is it?" he cried again.

She had to tell him.

"I am old, Peter. I am ever so much more than twenty. I grew up long ago."

- J. M. Barrie, "Peter Pan"
🎨 F. D. Bedford

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