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cmonbartender · 2 months

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Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1912) - Arthur Rackham

#illustration #arthur rackham #peter pan #peter pan in kensington gardens #fairy #1910s #1912

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professionalintrovert · 9 months

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You know what’s my biggest literary pet peeve?

Peter Pan was originally a play that debuted in 1904. J.M. Barrie first published a prequel to that story as a novel in 1906 called Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. The Peter Pan story we know and love, where Wendy and her brothers fly with him to Neverland and meet the Lost Boys and Captain Hook, was first published in novel form in 1911 as Peter and Wendy.

I get that the best known Peter Pan story began as a play with that title, one that the Disney movie and subsequent live-action adaptations popularized.

But if you’re gonna keep reprinting and republishing that story as a novel, it should be published as Peter and Wendy, not Peter Pan. I had to read both Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens and Peter and Wendy for a class in college, and this has bothered me ever since.

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innervoiceartblog · 5 months

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"He would make me gaze fixedly at one of the majestic trees with massive trunk and tell me about Grimm’s fairy tales, which he had illustrated, and about the little men who blew their horns in elfland. He would say that under the roots of that tree the little men had their dinner and churned the butter they extracted from the sap of the tree. He would also make me see queer animals and birds in the branches of the tree and a little magic door below the trunk, which was the entrance to Fairyland... "

Walter Starkie reminisces about his Uncle Arthur Rackham. Illustration by Rackham from "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens.

#arthur rackham #Walter Starkie #illustration #fairy tales #Grimm's Fairy Tales #Peter Pan #Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens #Fairyland #Imagika #magic

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uwmspeccoll · 2 years

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Happy Birthday J.M. Barrie!

Today we share illustrations from the first American trade edition of Peter and Wendy (Scribner’s, 1911) and the second American edition of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (Scribner’s, 1910) to honor the birth of Scottish playwright and author J.M. Barrie, born May, 9th 1860. Peter and Wendy is illustrated by F. D. Bedford, while Kensington Gardens is illustrated by Arthur Rackham.

Barrie is best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan, modeled after the sons of the Llewelyn Davies family, whom Barrie would go on to serve as guardian after the death of father Arthur (d. 1907) and mother Sylvia (d. 1910). The character of Peter Pan first appeared in Barrie’s 1902 novel The Little White Bird. A portion of that novel about an infant Peter was extracted and reprinted by Barrie’s English publisher, Hodder and Stoughton, in 1906 as Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens following the success of Barrie’s 1904 stage play, Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up. The stage play later served as the basis for the 1911 novel, Peter and Wendy.

While Peter Pan remains Barrie’s most enduring creation, he enjoyed much success on the London stage, including Ibsen’s Ghost (1891), Quality Street (1901), The Admirable Crichton (1902), The Twelve Pound Look (1910), and Mary Rose (1920). He was also involved in several campaigns to challenge censorious policies affecting British theatre.

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-Olivia, Special Collections Graduate Intern

#Milestone Monday #J.M. Barrie #Peter Pan #Peter and Wendy #Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens #F.D. Bedford #Authur Rackham #Llewelyn Davies #hodder and stoughton #English Theatre #olivia

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scrtdawn · 2 years

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‘The Serpentine is a lovely lake, and there is a drowned forest at the bottom of it. If you peer over the edge you can see the trees all growing upside down, and they say that at night there are drowned stars in it.’ Illustration by Arthur Rackham

#arthur rackham #Illustration by Arthur Rackham #Fairy #Fairies #Faerie #peter pan #Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens #Lake #The serpentine

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liminalflares · 9 months

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“If on such a night we could remain behind in the Gardens, as the famous Maimie Mannering did, we might see delicious sights; hundreds of lovely fairies hastening to the ball, the married ones wearing their wedding rings round their waists; the gentlemen, all in uniform, holding up the ladies’ trains, and linkmen running in front carrying winter cherries, which are the fairy-lanterns, the cloakroom where they put on their silver slippers and get a ticket for their wraps; the flowers streaming up from the Baby Walk to look on, and always welcome because they can lend a pin; the supper-table, with Queen Mab at the head of it, and behind her chair the Lord Chamberlain, who carries a dandelion on which he blows when Her Majesty wants to know the time.”

Illustration by Arthur Rackham for J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, 1906

#Arthur Rackham #J.M. Barrie #Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens #Fairies #Fae #Kensington Gardens

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books-to-add-to-your-tbr · 1 year

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Title: Peter Pan

Author: J.M. Barrie

Series or standalone: series

Publication year: 1911

Genres: fiction, classics, fantasy, adventure

Blurb: Peter Pan, the mischievous boy who refuses to grow up, lands in the Darlings’ proper middle-class home to look for his shadow. He befriends Wendy, John, and Michael, and teaches them to fly (with a little help from fairy dust). He and Tinker Bell whisk them off to Neverland, where they encounter the Red Indians, the Little Lost Boys, pirates, and the dastardly Captain Hook.

#peter pan #peter pan in kensington gardens #peter and wendy #jm barrie #j m barrie #series #1911 #fiction #classics #fantasy #adventure

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myhikari21things · 2 years

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