2026-05-09 13:47 UTC
“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
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https://booksfromscotland.com/2020/11/a-friendship-in-letters/
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@scotlit@mastodon.scot 2026-05-09 13:50
Although Barrie is remembered today almost exclusively for PETER PAN, he was a prominent 19th-century novelist & the most successful British playwright of the early 20th century. GATEWAY TO THE MODERN, edited by Valentina Bold & Andrew Nash, explores Barrie’s multifarious career @litstudies@a.gup.pe 7/10 https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/occasional_papers/gateway_to_the_modern/ #Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #19thcentury #Victorian #20thcentury #Edwardian #PeterPan #drama #cinema #cinemahistory