Quoting "Deborah A. Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I just read someplace that LD's story wound up with a not-so-happy ending: > he > had enough adversity in his adult life to wind up throwing himself onto a > train > or subway track to end it all. How sad. > -- >
Peter killed himself c1960 (at Sloane Square station) and Michael drowned at Oxford (with another student - it's usally assumed to have been a suicide pact). George was killed in WW1. All very sad. Mr L-D was still alive during the writing of Peter Pan ( a fifth boy was born after the play was first performed) and, IIRC, according to Andrew Birkin's book, moved house to get away from Barrie. I think Barrie's involvement with the family is usually accepted to have been a little more contraversial (though not necessarily for sinister reasons) than the film made out (and if I'd been Mr L-D I'd have been a bit annoyed by the Hook/Mr Darling doubling). Certainly Peter L-D did destroy all Barrie's letters to Michael because they were 'too much' (and since he was a publisher, he knew their literary signficance better than most). Don't think it stops it being a great film though. Nicky -- ________________________________________ Girlsown mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] For self-administration and access to archives see http://home.it.net.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/girlsown For FAQs see http://www.club-web.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/girlsown/faq-0.htm
