Definition of Sir James Matthew Barrie

1. Noun. Scottish dramatist and novelist; created Peter Pan (1860-1937).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Sir James Matthew Barrie

Sir Henry Wood
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim
Sir Howard Walter Florey
Sir Humphrey Davy
Sir Humphrey Gilbert
Sir Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Pitman
Sir Jack Hobbs
Sir Jacob Epstein
Sir James Augustus Henry Murray
Sir James Augustus Murray
Sir James Clark Ross
Sir James Dewar
Sir James George Frazer
Sir James Matthew Barrie (current term)
Sir James Murray
Sir James Paget
Sir James Paul McCartney
Sir James Young Simpson
Sir John Carew Eccles
Sir John Cockcroft
Sir John Cowdery Kendrew
Sir John Douglas Cockcroft
Sir John Everett Millais
Sir John Falstaff
Sir John Frederick William Herschel
Sir John Gielgud
Sir John Hawkins
Sir John Hawkyns

Literary usage of Sir James Matthew Barrie

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Short History of the English Drama by Benjamin Griffith Brawley (1921)
"To pass from George Bernard Shaw to Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860—) is to go from realism to romance, from satire to delicate fancy. ..."

2. The Seventh Reader by Martha Adelaide Holton, Charles Madison Curry (1914)
"... of his cause in the face of seeming defeat and unpopularity? Which best tests the mettle of the fighter? MENDING 'THE CLOCK Sir James Matthew Barrie ..."

3. History of English Literature by Alastair St. Clair Mackenzie (1914)
"Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860- ).—Wit is like the sharp rattle of a hailstorm ; humor is like the soft twining of a Scots mist. Wit is the lightning; ..."

4. Gilbert and Sullivan and Their Operas: With Recollections and Anecdotes of D by François Cellier, Cunningham Bridgeman (1914)
"... to speak in derogatory terms of any work by such distinguished knights of the pen as the present Sir James Matthew Barrie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ..."

5. Scotland of the Scots by G. R. Blake (1918)
"Sir James Matthew Barrie is one of the greatest figures in Scottish literature, and in the literature of the united nation. a Nottingham journal, ..."

6. Authors and I by Charles Lewis Hind (1921)
"... and we begin to understand why the poor Scots boy has become Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Bt. cr. 1913. I wager that all this is nothing to him. ..."

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