Male : Playwright. Married Mary Ansell in 1894 (divorced 1909). In 1897 he met Sylvia Llewellyn Davies (daughter of George Du Maurier). She was married to a barrister and had several young children. When her husband died in 1907 Barrie assumed financial responsibility for them, and, when their mother died of cancer in 1910 he adopted them. He became devoted to his secretary, Lady Cynthia Asquith in later life

Nationality : Scottish Place of Birth : Kirriemuir, nr Dundee

Date of Birth : 1860 Date of Death : 1937 Age : 77

Other Work : Journalist

Education : Dumfries Academy & Edinburgh University

1888-1890
Better Dead (1888 Swan Sonnenschein)
When a Man's Single : A Tale of Literary Life (1888 Hodder & Stoughton)
Auld Licht Idylls (1888 Hodder & Stoughton) (1895 H & S - 550. William Hole )
A Window in Thrums (1889 H & S) (1892 H & S - 550 large paper. William Hole )
[Thrums was his name for Kirriemuir]
An Edinburgh Eleven : Pencil Portraits from College Life
(1889 Office of the British Weekly, London)
My Lady Nicotine (1890 Hodder & Stoughton)

1891-1900
The Little Minister (1891 Cassell) - 3 vols (1891 Lovell, NY)
[Filmed in 1934]
A Tillyloss Scandal (1893 Lovell, Coryell NY)
Margaret Ogilvy, By Her Son (1896 Hodder & Stoughton)
The Novels, Tales & Sketches of J M Barrie (1896 NY) - 8 vols
Sentimental Tommy : The Story of His Boyhood (1896 Scribner NY) - William Hatherell
Tommy and Grizel (1900 Cassell)

1901-1910
Quality Street (nd c1901 H & S) - Hugh Thomson
[Filmed in 1937]
The Little White Bird, or Adventures in Kensington Gardens (1902 H & S) (1902 Scribner)
The Admirable Crichton (1902)
What Every Woman Knows (1906)
[Filmed in 1934]
Walker London : A Farcical Comedy in Three Acts (1907 French)
George Meredith (1909 Constable)

1911-1920
The Works (1913 Kirriemuir Edition, London) - 10 vols. 1000
Quality Street (1913 H & S) - 1000 signed by Hugh Thomson
Offered in 1998 for £220
Half Hours (1914 Hodder & Stoughton) (1914 Scribner)
The Admirable Crichton (1914 Hodder & Stoughton) - 500 signed by Hugh Thomson
Signed Edition offered for £470 in 1998
[Filmed in 1957, & in 1934 as "We're Not Dressing"]
The Plays of J M Barrie (1918-38 London) - 12 vols

1921-1930
Courage : An Address delivered to St Andrews University (1922 Hodder & Stoughton) - 45 pp
George Meredith (1924 Wm Edwin Rudge, NY) - Ltd Ed 500
The Works of J M Barrie (1925-32 London, Uniform edition) - 4 vols
The Plays (1928 Hodder & Stoughton)
The Works (1929 Scribner NY) - Peter Pan Edition. 18 vols. 1030
Shall We Join the Ladies ? (1929 Hodder & Stoughton)
Address Delivered on Installation as Rector of Edinburgh University (1930 Hodder & Stoughton)

AFTER 1931
Farewell Miss Julie Logan : A Wintry Tale (1932 Scribner NY)
Dear Brutus : A Comedy in Three Acts (1934 Scribner)
Letters of J M Barrie (Ed by Viola Meynell) (1942 London)
Ibsen's Ghost (1975 Woolf, London)

PETER PAN
[Filmed in 2003]
1906-1910
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1906 H & S) (1906 Scribner) - Arthur Rackham
Offered in 1991 for £260
+ Signed Ltd Ed 500 copies
Offered in 1995 for £2700
The Peter Pan Picture Book (1907 Hodder & Stoughton) - Alice B Woodward

1911-1920
Peter and Wendy (1911 H & S) (1911 Scribner) - F D Bedford
Peter and Wendy (1912 H & S. Enlarged Ed) - Arthur Rackham
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1912 H & S. New Ed) - Arthur Rackham
Peter and Wendy (1912 H & S) - Arthur Rackham. 500 signed by publishers, engravers & printers
Unsigned edition offered for £370 in 1998
The Peter Pan Portfolio (1912 H & S) - 20 copies, each plate signed by Arthur Rackham
The Story of Peter Pan (1914 H & S) - Alice B Woodward
The Peter Pan Painting Book (1915 H & S) - John Hassall

1921-1930
Peter Pan & Wendy (1921 H & S) - Mabel Lucy Attwell
Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up (1928 H & S) - 1st Ed of the play
Peter Pan and Wendy (nd. H & S) (1924 Scribner) - Mabel Lucy Attwell
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1930 H & S) - Abridged Ed. - Arthur Rackham
Peter Pan & Wendy (c1930 Hodder & Stoughton) - Kathleen Atkins

1931-1950
Peter Pan and Wendy (1931 H & S) - Gwynedd Hudson
The Picture Story Book of Peter Pan (1931 Whitman) - Roy West
Peter and Wendy (1939 Hodder & Stoughton) (1940 Scribner) - Edmund Blampied
Peter Pan (1942 Grossett & Dunlap) - Miss Elliott

AFTER 1951
Peter Pan (1951 H & S) - Nora S Unwin
Peter Pan (1953 Walt Disney)
Peter Pan (1957 Random House) - Marjorie Torrey
When Wendy Grew Up - An Afterthought : Play (1957 Nelson) - D Michael Leonard
Peter Pan (1962 Brockhampton Press) - Edward Ardizzone
Peter Pan & Wendy (1979 Hodder & Stoughton) - Mabel Lucie Attwell
500. Facsimile of 1921 Ed
Peter Pan (1980 H & S) - Trina Schart Hyman
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1983 H & S. Facsimile of 1912 Edition)
- 500 copies. Arthur Rackham
Peter Pan (1987 Holt US) - Michael Hague
Peter Pan's ABC Peter Pan's ABC (c1913 Hodder & Stoughton)
(nd. Humphrey Milford, OUP) - Flora White

["Finding Neverland", the 2004 film is a half-factual, half-fantasy account
of how Barrie came to write Peter Pan]

READING
Herbert Garland : A Bibliography of the Writings of Sir James Matthew Barrie
(1928 Bookman's Journal) - 520
Thomas Moult : J M Barrie (1928 Cape)
J A Hammerton : Barrie - the Story of a Genius (1929 London)
B D Cutler : Sir James M Barrie - A Bibliography 1750 (1931 NY)
Andrew Black : Sir J M Barrie - His First Editions, Points & Values (1933 Foyle) - 500
J A Roy : James Matthew Barrie (1937 London)
W A Darlington : J M Barrie (1938 London)
Denis Mackail : The Story of J M B (1941 Peter Owen) (1941 Scribners NY)
George Blake : Barrie and the Kailyard School (1951 London)
Cynthia Asquith : Portrait of Barrie (1954 James Barrie, London)
Roger Lancelyn Green : J M Barrie (1960 Bodley Head)
Harry M Geduld : Sir James M Barrie (1971 Twayne, NY)
Andrew Birkin : J M Barrie and the Lost Boys (1979 Constable)
Janet Dunbar : J M Barrie - the Man Behind the Image (1970 Collins £2.25) (1970 HM, Boston)