Tragically, Margaret died at age five. When Barrie wrote Peter Pan, he named Wendy in her honour. However, the key inspiration for the story was Barrie’s elder brother, David Barrie. The ...

Peter Pan has traveled a long way in 100 years. Barrie’s official biographer, Denis Mackail, wrote in The Story of J.M.B. that Nina Boucicault, the first actress to play Peter, was “[n]ot ...