{"id":1567,"date":"2012-10-11T18:03:58","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T23:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=1567"},"modified":"2017-03-08T21:28:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T04:28:57","slug":"six-degrees-of-j-m-barrie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/six-degrees-of-j-m-barrie\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Degrees of J. M. Barrie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1569 alignright\" style=\"margin: 0 0px 20px 30px;\" title=\"James M. Barrie\" src=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/James_Matthew_Barrie00-e1349986291644.jpg\" alt=\"J.M. Barrie\" width=\"250\" height=\"431\" \/> Could James M. Barrie, the author of <em>Peter Pan<\/em>, be the literary Kevin Bacon of his day? It might sound a little nutty, but take a look at his connections:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He had a long-standing correspondence with <strong>Robert Louis Stevenson<\/strong>.\u00a0 Despite that fact that the two wrote many letters, they never met in person.<\/li>\n<li><strong>George Meredith<\/strong>, the author of <em>The Ordeal of Richard Feverel<\/em>, was his friend.<\/li>\n<li><strong>George Bernard Shaw<\/strong> was Barrie&#8217;s neighbor for several years.<\/li>\n<li>He collaborated with <strong>H.B. Marriott Watson<\/strong> on a biography of Richard Savage.<\/li>\n<li>Barrie&#8217;s friend <strong>H. G. Wells<\/strong> tried to help him with his marital problems.<\/li>\n<li>Barrie knew <strong>Thomas Hardy<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/strong> and James M. Barrie were good friends.\u00a0 <a title=\"Friendship of Conan Doyle and Barrie\" href=\"http:\/\/www.conandoyleinfo.com\/life-conan-doyle\/family\/conan-doyle-and-james-m-barrie\/\" target=\"_blank\">You can read about their friendship at our partner site, The Chronicles of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Barrie&#8217;s formed a cricket team, the Allah-Akabarries. Some of Barrie&#8217;s teammates included, <strong>Conan Dolye<\/strong>, <strong>H. G. Wells<\/strong>, <strong>Jerome K. Jerome<\/strong>, <strong>P. G. Wodehouse<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>A. E. W. Mason<\/strong>, <strong>E. V. Lucas<\/strong>, <strong>E. W. Hornung<\/strong>, <strong>Maurice Hewlett<\/strong>, <strong>A. A. Milne<\/strong> (of Winnie the Pooh fame) and <strong>G. K. Chesterton<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could James M. Barrie, the author of Peter Pan, be the literary Kevin Bacon of his day? It might sound a little nutty, but take a look at his connections: He had a long-standing correspondence with Robert Louis Stevenson.\u00a0 Despite <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[946,136],"tags":[330,332,334,335,329,269,331,326,336,325,328,333,255,337,182,826,327,651],"class_list":["post-1567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-author-information","category-sir-arthur-conan-doyle","tag-a-a-milne","tag-a-e-w-mason","tag-e-v-lucas","tag-e-w-hornung","tag-g-k-chesterton","tag-george-bernard-shaw","tag-george-meredith","tag-h-g-wells","tag-h-b-marriott-watson","tag-james-m-barrie","tag-jerome-k-jerome","tag-maurice-hewlett","tag-p-g-wodehouse","tag-peter-pan","tag-robert-louis-stevenson","tag-sir-arthur-conan-doyle","tag-thomas-hardy","tag-winnie-the-pooh"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}