Click2Flicks - Finding Neverland: J.M. Barrie and the Story of Peter Pan - Chapter 1 - Preface

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff cellpadding=5> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>FINDING NEVERLAND:</p> <p>J.M. BARRIE AND THE STORY OF PETER PAN</b></font></p>  <table width="590"> <tr> <td align="CENTER" valign="top" bgcolor="000000" colspan=2><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="3" color="FFFFFF"><b>STORY CHAPTER LINKS</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" border="0"> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="#preface"><b>1. STORY PREFACE</b></a></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="finding_neverland_ch2.htm">2. J.M. BARRIE - EARLY LIFE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="finding_neverland_ch3.htm">3. MARY ANSELL BARRIE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="finding_neverland_ch4.htm">4. SYLVIA LLEWELYN DAVIES</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="finding_neverland_ch5.htm">5. <i>PETER PAN</i> IS BORN</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" height="18" width="287"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="finding_neverland_ch6.htm"><b>6. OPENING NIGHT</b></a></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width=311 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 border=0 height="171"> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" height="18" width="287"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="finding_neverland_ch7.htm"><b>7. TRAGEDY STRIKES</b></a></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" height="18" width="287"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="finding_neverland_ch8.htm">8. BARRIE AND THE BOYS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" height="18" width="287"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="finding_neverland_ch9.htm">9. CHARLES FROHMAN</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" height="18" width="287"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="finding_neverland_ch10.htm"><b>10. SCENES FROM LIFE</b></a></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" height="18" width="287"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="finding_neverland_ch11.htm"><b>11. THE REST OF THE STORY</b></a></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" height="18" width="287"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="finding_neverland_ch12.htm"><b>12. USED AND RECOMMENDED SOURCES</b></a></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  <p><font size="3"><u><b><a name="preface">PREFACE</a></b></u></font></b></p> <div align=center><font face="Times New Roman" color="000000" size="3"><b><i>I suppose I always knew that I made Peter<br> by rubbing the five of you violently together,<br> as savages with two sticks produce a flame.<br> I am sometimes asked who and what Peter is,<br> but that is all he is, the spark I got from you.<br><br></b></i> Sir <a target="_blank" href="images/J.m.barrie.200x284"><b>James Matthew Barrie</b></a><br> about<br> George, Jack, Peter, Michael and Nico Davies<br> in the<br> 1928 <i>Peter Pan</i> Dedication<br><br></font> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">J.M. Barrie was only six years old, in 1867, when his brother David, nearly fourteen, died in a skating accident. Most beloved of all her ten children, David was the one whom Margaret Ogilvy believed would succeed. (Barries mother, following an old Scots custom, had kept her maiden name.)</p> <p>In a way, Margarets belief about David proved correct. Although her second son, suddenly dead, would be forever frozen in time, her third son, whom the family called <a target="_blank" href="images/jamie.jpg"><b>Jamie</b></a>, would eventually write a story so popular that 100 years later children still love the tale about a boy who never grew up.</p> <p>Who was J.M. Barrie? Where did he live? How did he spend his life? And who, exactly, inspired him to create <i>Peter Pan</i>? To find the answers, lets follow the trail of Barries life and work.</p> </div> <p align="right"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="2"><a href="finding_neverland_ch2.htm">GO TO CHAPTER 2</a></font></p> <p align="center"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="3"><a href="http://www.awesomestories.com/content/about_author.htm" target="_blank"><b>Author: Carole D. Bos, J.D.</b></center></a></p><br> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>  </body>