![]() ![]() As the weeks passed she became more willing to listen to her small boy’s adventures. Returning from his travels was learning better how to draw his mother out of her wretchedness. Faced with rejection by his grief-stricken mother, biographer Lisa Chaney argues that Jamie coped by telling stories and conducting performances. When James was seven, his fourteen-year-old brother, David, died. Given the paucity of their own education, Margaret (daughter of a stonemason) and David (a weaver) were determined that their children had more opportunities than they had been afforded and “ a university education remained one of the pinnacles of social achievement ” (Chaney, 11). James was the second youngest child of Margaret and David Barrie who, at the time of James’ birth, lived in a small cottage in Kirriemuir in the burg of Angus with their six children the oldest, eighteen-year-old Alick, was studying at Aberdeen University. Scottish playwright and novelist, James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937), was in kinship care as a child. ![]()
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