What Every Woman Knows (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

By J. M. Barrie

This 1908 play took London and Broadway by storm. Plain Maggie’s family agrees to fund John Shand’s education—if he agrees to marry her later. Eventually Shand is elected to Parliament and believes himself fit for a prettier bride, but what he fails to recognize is that behind every successful man...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Release date: Feb 22, 2011
• ISBN: 9781411440357

J. M. Barrie

J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie (1860--1937) was a novelist and playwright born and educated in Scotland. After moving to London, he authored several successful novels and plays. While there, Barrie befriended the Llewelyn Davies family and its five boys, and it was this friendship that inspired him to write about a boy with magical abilities, first in his adult novel The Little White Bird and then later in Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a 1904 play. Now an iconic character of children's literature, Peter Pan first appeared in book form in the 1911 novel Peter and Wendy, about the whimsical adventures of the eternal boy who could fly and his ordinary friend Wendy Darling.