Davies's two sons, whose guardian he had been.īarrie received many honors in his lifetime.
He was further grieved by the accidental deaths of Mrs. Davies in 1910 hardened the heretofore lighthearted writer. During this period he had become attached to Sylvia Llewellyn Davies and her sons. Their childless union was perhaps marred by the influence of his mother, and they were divorced in 1910. Determined to earn his living as a writer, he moved to London.Īfter achieving literary success, Barrie married the actress Mary Ansell in 1894. Influenced by his mother's interest in literature and art, the ambitious Barrie studied at the University of Edinburgh and then wrote prolifically for a Nottingham newspaper for two years. Barrie was born in Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland, on May 9, 1860, the son of a poor, hardworking weaver. If Barrie hadn’t changed the name, children might now be playing in ‘Mamie houses’.The British dramatist and novelist Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) is best known for his play Peter Pan. As with Peter himself, the Wendy house had already appeared, under a different name, in The Little White Bird, in which fairies build a house around Mamie Mannering, Wendy’s prototype, to protect her from the cold. The idea came from the washhouse outside Barrie’s own childhood home. The name originates in the small house that Peter Pan builds around Wendy Darling when she is shot by Tootles, one of the Lost Boys. But the name Wendy had been used as a girls’ name since the nineteenth century (as a pet form of Gwendolyn) and there is even some evidence that, before Barrie popularised it as a female given name, it was used as a boys’ name.
It’s true that Barrie arrived at the name by shortening ‘my fwiendy-wendy’, reportedly how the young Margaret Henley, who had trouble pronouncing her Rs, referred to Barrie. Wendy Darling is often called the first Wendy, the girls’ name having originated in Barrie’s play – a nice fact, if only it were true. Barrie didn’t invent the name Wendy – but he did give us the Wendy house. They were active as a cricket team between 18.Ĥ.
They were named the Allahakbarriesin the mistaken belief that the Arabic phrase ‘Allah akbar’ means ‘heaven help us’ (it actually means ‘God is great’). Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jerome K. Barrie set up a celebrity cricket team featuring G.
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