2026-05-09 13:46 UTC
“Neverland is as much a tomb for the unloved and forgotten as it is a map of a child’s mind. It is a place ruled by a boy with a memory as thin as the skeleton leaves he wears.”
—Sabrina Orah Mark on lost boys, fairy tales, & raising Black sons in America
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https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/06/19/sorry-peter-pan-were-over-you/
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #PeterPan #motherhood #race
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@scotlit@mastodon.scot 2026-05-09 13:47
“I was struck by just how fun, playful and jesting Barrie was. And while I knew they developed a friendship, I didn’t realise just how much the friendship with Stevenson meant to Barrie” —A Friendship in Letters: Michael Shaw brings together correspondence between two of Scotland’s most famous writers – J.M. Barrie and Robert Louis Stevenson 6/10 https://booksfromscotland.com/2020/11/a-friendship-in-letters/ #Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #RobertLouisStevenson #19thcentury #Victorian #letters #correspondence