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Definition of Barrie
1. Noun. Scottish dramatist and novelist; created Peter Pan (1860-1937).
Generic synonyms: Dramatist, Playwright
Lexicographical Neighbors of Barrie
Literary usage of Barrie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bookman (1897)
"By barrie. $1.50. (Scribner.) Ж The Seven Seas. By Kipling. ... By barrie. $1.00.
(The Copp-Clark Co.) I. Story of Canada. By Bourinot. $1.50. ..."
2. The Drama and the Stage by Ludwig Lewisohn (1922)
"barrie, or The Silver Lining CONTEMPORARY reviewers of the drama may be divided
into three classes: those who debate whether Pinero or barrie is the greater ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"She told me everything," Mr barrie has written, " and so my memories of our ...
In the meantime Mr barrie had been developing his talent as a dramatist. ..."
4. The British and American Drama of To-day: Outlines for Their Study by Barrett Harper Clark (1915)
"barrie is a novelist whose best plays show nothing of the methods of the novelist;
he is more successful in this respect than his nearest competitor, ..."
5. Authors and I by Charles Lewis Hind (1921)
"JM barrie HE gives his address as Kirriemuir, Scotland, and his club as the
Athenaeum. ... It was not a good play—there was little of the real barrie in it, ..."
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