![]() ![]() ![]() The narrative drifts from a conversational discussion of the Gardens (and how children like to play there) to the two “remembering” the time Peter Pan first came to live there. The tale begins with an anonymous father-figure and a boy named David who take walks in London’s famous Kensington Gardens. Barrie‘s personal connection to the Peter Pan mythos. Through this iterative story development, one easily senses J. There are glimpses of this bittersweet legacy in Kensington Gardens, itself an excerpt of a larger novel, The Little White Bird. Like his fictional contemporary Sherlock Holmes, Peter Pan was both a real-life figure and a figment of imagination, a character who would haunt his author for decades. ![]() ![]() This little story predates the more famous novel Peter and Wendy by some years (the latter I reviewed in my latest podcast episode “ Getting Older with Peter Pan“). Peter Pan – immortal, magical, and forever lonely – has his origins in a novella called Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1906). Michael Llewelyn Davies as Peter Pan – Photo by J. ![]()
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