J. M. Barrie
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Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet was a British novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote
Portrait by Herbert Rose Barraud, 1892
Barrie in 1892
Some of Barrie's novels
Peter Pan statue (1912) by Sir George Frampton in Kensington Gardens, London
Llewelyn Davies boys
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The Davies boys were the inspiration for the stories of Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie, in which several of the characters were named after them. They were the sons of Sylvia and Arthur Llewelyn Davies. Th
J. M. Barrie
…creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote several successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (first included in Barrie's 1902 adult novel The Little…
Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, the boys' mother
Jack Llewelyn Davies age 7 in The Boy Castaways
Mary Hodgson, the boys' nurse
J. M. Barrie, the boys' guardian