2026-05-09 13:44 UTC
“…James Hook’s last will, which was forwarded to his aunt by a land-shark of Rio. By this James left everything to Eton. But the Governors, it appears, had scruples—even about the hat—and so all passed to his aunt Emily…”
—JM Barrie’s “Captain Hook at Eton” – being the text of an address delivered at Eton College in 1927 – can be read online via WikiSource
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Captain_Hook_at_Eton
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@scotlit@mastodon.scot 2026-05-09 13:46
“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 5/10 https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/06/19/sorry-peter-pan-were-over-you/ #Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #PeterPan #motherhood #race