Captain Hook "had been at a famous public school. Its traditions still clung to him.... Above all he retained the passion for good form. Good form! However much he may have degenerated, he still knew that this is all that really matters."
- J. M. Barrie, "Peter Pan"
🎨 Trina Schart Hyman
#BookWormSat #GothicSpring #Literature #Fiction #PeterPan #CaptainHook #JMBarrie #TrinaSchartHyman
“Farewell Miss Julie Logan”, by JM Barrie
The tale of an uncanny romance in a remote winter glen, “Farewell Miss Julie Logan” is one of the most unnerving & tenacious examples of Scottish Gothic fiction. Listen to the story online, from Romancing the Gothic
10/10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enjQUoqUpy4
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #gothic #Scotland #supernatural #ghosts #ghoststories
Queer Nostalgia & Island Time in JM Barrie & Compton Mackenzie
SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW 16/1 (2024)
Dr Timothy C. Baker on JM Barrie’s MARY ROSE (1920) & Compton Mackenzie’s 2 portraits of queer life on Capri: VESTAL FIRE (1927), & EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN (1928)
Free online via Project MUSE
@litstudies
9/10
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/243/article/930909
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #20thcentury #modernism #queer #queerlit #queerhistory #ComptonMackenzie
MARY ROSE
Currently available on BBC Sounds – JM Barrie’s haunting play about a girl who never grows up…
Written in the aftermath of WW1, Barrie’s play about loss & the mystery of life is by turns comic, eerie, & heartbreaking
8/10
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
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
“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
6/10
https://booksfromscotland.com/2020/11/a-friendship-in-letters/
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #RobertLouisStevenson #19thcentury #Victorian #letters #correspondence
“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
“…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
4.5/10
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Captain_Hook_at_Eton
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #PeterPan #EtonCollege #privateschools
“James Hook, the pirate captain, was a great Etonian, but not a good one…”
—Brian Till in The Atlantic explores “The Secret History of Captain Hook”
🖼️ Alice B. Woodward (1862–1951), “Right into the jaws of the crocodile”
4/10
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2010/12/the-secret-history-of-captain-hook/68313/
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #PeterPan #EtonCollege #privateschools
Bevan Thomas
Bevan Thomas
Assoc for Scottish Literature
