1900-1949 British Children's Literature

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 34. Chapters: A. A. Milne, Kim, J. M. Barrie, Kenneth Grahame, E. Nesbit, Angela Brazil, Arthur Ransome, Abbey Connectors, Abbey Series, Charles Hamilton, Richmal Crompton, Mabel Esther Allan, Oxenham Non-Connectors, W. E. Johns, Brendon Chase, Gwynedd Rae, Just So Stories, The Otterbury Incident, The Little Grey Men, The Far-Distant Oxus, List of British children's and young adults' literature titles, The White Feather, Mrs George de Horne Vaizey, List of early-20th-century British children's magazines and annuals, To Herat and Cabul, A Story of the First Afghan War, Meredith and Co., List of British children's and young adults' authors, List of early-20th-century British children's literature illustrators. Excerpt: Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 ¿ 19 June 1937) was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. The child of a family of small-town weavers, he was educated in Scotland. He moved to London, where he developed a career as a novelist and playwright. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys who inspired him in writing about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (included in The Little White Bird), then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a "fairy play" about this ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland. This play quickly overshadowed his previous work and although he continued to write successfully, it became his best-known work, credited with popularising the name Wendy, which was very uncommon previously. Barrie unofficially adopted the Davies boys following the deaths of their parents. Before his death, he gave the rights to the Peter Pan works to Great Ormond Street Hospital, which continues to benefit from them. Barrie was born in Kirriemuir, Angus, to a conservative Calvinist family. His father David Barrie was a modestly successful weaver. His mother, Margaret Ogilvy, had assumed her deceased mother's household responsibilities at the age of eight. Barrie was the ninth child of ten (two of whom died before he was born), all of whom were schooled in at least the three Rs, in preparation for possible professional careers. He was a small child (he only grew to 5 ft 3¿ in. according to his 1934 passport), and drew attention to himself with storytelling. When he was 6 years old, Barrie's next-older brother David (his mother's favourite) died two days before his 14th birthday in an ice-skating accident. This left his mother devastated, and Barrie tried to fill David's place in his mother's attentions, even wearing David's clothes and whistling in the manner that he did. One time Barrie entered her room, and hear