Echoes of the War

MP3 Audio CD. Echoes of the War includes: The Old Lady Shows Her Medals; The New Word; Barbara's Wedding; and A Well Remembered Voice.

Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM was a Scottish author and dramatist, most recognized in the present as the author of Peter Pan. He was born and studied in Scotland but emigrated to London, where he composed numerous outstanding stories and dramas. There he encountered the Llewelyn Davies boys, who motivated him to pen of an infant boy who has enchanting ventures in Kensington Gardens contained in The Little White Bird, later to create Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a fairy drama of a timeless boy and a common girl, Wendy, who have excitements in the world of magic taking place in Neverland.

Even though he still makes stories well, Peter Pan outdone his other writings, and is attributed with disseminating the name Wendy. The playwright privately took on the Davies boys in the wake of the passing of their parents. He became a baronet by George V, and a member of the Order of Merit in the 1922 New Year Honours. Before he died, he handed the privileges to the Peter Pan plays to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, which remains to be of help from them. He understood that he dreamed to have a profession as a novelist. Although, his family tried to convince him to take a vocation in the ministry.

He worked in a job advertisement established by his sister in The Scotsman, he then became a staff journalist on the Nottingham Journal. He later came back to Kirriemuir. He contributed to the St. James's Gazette, a London newspaper, making use of his mother's tales of the town where she was raised. The editor "liked that Scotch thing" very much that Barrie transpired making a series of these tales.