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The Real Peter Pan Story - The Boy Who Wouldn’t grow up…
J.M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan,
was born on this day in 1860
whilst searching the web, I found this interesting snippet which
might explain much about how J.M. Barrie got the idea for the
Peter Pan story:
When he was 6 years old, his next-older brother David Barrie ,
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 his clothes. One time Barrie entered her room, and heard her say “Is that you?”“I thought it was the dead boy she was speaking to,”
wrote Barrie in his biographical account of his mother, Margaret Ogilvy (1896),
“and I said in a little lonely voice, ‘No, it’s no’ him, it’s just me.’”Barrie’s mother found comfort in the fact that her dead son would
remain a boy forever, never to grow up and leave her.
Birkin, Andrew: J. M. Barrie & the Lost Boys
(Contables, 1979; revised edition, Yale University Press, 2003)
via Wikipedia