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Definition of James Matthew Barrie
1. Noun. Scottish dramatist and novelist; created Peter Pan (1860-1937).
Generic synonyms: Dramatist, Playwright
Lexicographical Neighbors of James Matthew Barrie
Literary usage of 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)
"James Matthew Barrie.—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. Great Short Stories: A New Collection of Famous Examples from the by William Patten, Broughton Brandenburg, P.F. Collier & Son Corporation (1906)
"... BELL BY James Matthew Barrie *:* James Matthew Barrie, born in 1860, is the
most important figure in a group of recent writers who have taken for their ..."
3. Greatest Short Stories (1915)
"THE COURTING OF T'NOW- HEAD'S BELL BY James Matthew Barrie FOR two years it had
been notorious in the square that Sam'l Dickie was thinking of courting ..."
4. Personal Sketches of Recent Authors by Hattie Tyng Griswold (1898)
"James Matthew Barrie. IAN MACLAREN recently related the following incident,
illustrating the pride of the common people of Scotland in their most popular ..."
5. Selected Short Stories by Claude Moore Fuess (1914)
"James Matthew Barrie How GAVIN BIRSE PUT IT TO MAG LOWNIE IN a wet day the rain
gathered in blobs on the road that passed our garden. ..."
6. 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 ..."
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