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 * JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE**

Barrie was born in Kirriemuir, Angus, to a conservative Scottish Calvinist family. His father David Barrie was a modestly successful weaver. His mother Margaret Ogilvy Barrie had assumed her deceased mother's household responsibilities at the age of 8. Barrie was the ninth child of ten (two of whom died before he was born), all of whom were schooled in at least the three Rs, in preparation for possible professional careers. He was a small child (he only grew to 5 feet 3 inches as an adult), and drew attention to himself with storytelling. When he was 6 years old, Barrie's next-older brother David (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 David's clothes and whistling in the manner that he had. 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. Despite evidence to the contrary, it has been speculated that this trauma induced psychogenic dwarfism, and was responsible for his short stature and apparently asexual adulthood. Eventually Barrie and his mother entertained each other with stories of her brief childhood and books such as //Robinson Crusoe// and //The Pilgrim's Progress.//
 * I. The life of James Matthew barrie**

Peter Pan first appeared in a section of //The Little White Bird//, a 1902 novel written for adults. Following the highly successful debut of the play about Peter Pan in 1904, Barrie's publishers, Hodder and Stoughton, extracted chapters 13-18 of //The Little White Bird// and republished them in 1906 under the title //Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens//, with the addition of illustrations by Arthur Rackham.The character's best-known adventure debuted on 27 December 1904, in the stage play //Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up//. This story was adapted and expanded somewhat as a novel, published in 1911 as //Peter and Wendy//, later as //Peter Pan and Wendy//, and still later as simply //Peter Pan//.Peter Pan has appeared in numerous adaptations, sequels, and prequels since then, including the widely known 1953 animated feature film //Walt Disney's Peter Pan//, various stage musicals (including one by Jerome Robbins, starring Cyril Ritchard and Mary Martin, filmed for television), live-action feature films //Hook// (1991) and //Peter Pan// (2003), and the authorized sequel novel //Peter Pan in Scarlet// (2006). He has also appeared in various works not authorized by the holders of the character's copyright, which has lapsed in most parts of the world. A major new stage production that will tour internationally is being mounted in 2009 in Kensington Gardens in a specially built theatre pavilion within view of the Peter Pan statue. Barrie never described Peter's appearance in detail, even in the novel //Peter and Wendy//, leaving much of it to the imagination of the reader and the interpretation of anyone adapting the character. Barrie mentions in "Peter and Wendy" that Peter Pan still had all of his first teeth. He describes him as a beautiful boy with a beautiful smile, 'clad in skeleton leaves and the juices that flow from trees'. In the play, Peter's outfit is made of autumn leaves and cobwebs.Traditionally the character has been played on stage by an adult woman, a decision driven primarily by the difficulty of casting actors even younger than the one playing Peter as the other children, so the presentation of the character on stage has never been viewed as implying how Peter 'really' looks.In //Peter Pan in Scarlet//, Geraldine McCaughrean adds to the description of his appearance, mentioning his blue eyes, and saying that his hair is light (or at least any colour lighter than black). In this novel, Never Land has moved on to autumn, so Peter wears a tunic of jay feathers and maple leaves, rather than his summertime garb. In the 'Starcatcher' stories written by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, Peter has carrot-orange hair and bright blue eyes.In the Disney films, Peter wears an outfit that's easier to animate, consisting of a short-sleeved green tunic and tights apparently made of cloth, and a cap with a feather in it. He has pointed elf-like ears, and his hair is orangish brown. In the live-action 2003 film, he is portrayed by Jeremy Sumpter, who has blond hair and blue eyes, and his outfit is made of leaves and vines. In //Hook//, he appears as an adult as Robin Williams with dark brown hair, but in flashbacks to his youth his hair is more orangish. In this film his ears appear pointed only when he is 'Peter Pan', not 'Peter Banning'; his Pan clothing resembles the Disney outfit.
 * II. Background of Peter Pan**


 * The works of James barrie**
 * //The Admirable Crichton//
 * //Alice Sit-By-The-Fire//
 * //Auld Licht Idylls//
 * //Better Dead//
 * //Dear Brutus//
 * //Echoes of the War//
 * //The Little Minister//
 * //The Little White Bird; or, Adventures in Kensington Gardens//
 * //Margaret Ogilvy//
 * //My Lady Nicotine, A Study in Smoke//