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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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J.M. Barrie
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(James Matthew Barrie, 1860–1937, bt 1913) Scottish playwright, known above all for *Peter Pan (1904). One of ten children of a handloom weaver, his first success came with a series of sentimental stories and novels about Scottish working-class life. Two of the best known among his plays for adults are The Admirable Crichton (1902), in which Crichton is a butler whose practical skills and ingenuity give him authority over his noble employer when the family is shipwrecked; and What Every Woman Knows (1908), where a self-made politician comes to discover the message of the title, which is that he could not have succeeded without the love of a good woman. Barrie's birthplace in Kirriemuir is kept as a museum.
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