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Hook's Waltz: Sports and letters
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History, art, and context discovered while researching the world of Peter Pan for "The Stowaway." Opinions on the above will certainly also be encountered here. Thursday, February 13, 2014. Not only did Mr. Barrie write his friends into Peter Pan as pirates who met terrible ends. He coerced them into playing on a cricket team whose ineptitude provided thirteen years of jokes. HG Wells and G.K. Chesterton were also invited, but declined to join. Allahakbarries in 1913,. Labels: A.A. Milne. Captain James H...
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Hook's Waltz: Friends in unexpected places
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History, art, and context discovered while researching the world of Peter Pan for "The Stowaway." Opinions on the above will certainly also be encountered here. Thursday, February 6, 2014. Friends in unexpected places. But James Matthew Barrie had no such qualms about writing his friends quite blatantly into the pirate crew in Peter Pan. Given that he shares his given name with the pirate captain, I suppose it should have come as less of a surprise. I cringed to discover that t. Another of the Jolly Roger.
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Hook's Waltz: A Captain Hook Christmas
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History, art, and context discovered while researching the world of Peter Pan for "The Stowaway." Opinions on the above will certainly also be encountered here. Wednesday, December 25, 2013. A Captain Hook Christmas. Because I'm a grownup and I can celebrate the way I want to. Someday I would love to add a Steinbach Hook nutcracker to the collection:. But he's expensive. And, I hear, about to be discontinued, which will not likely make him less expensive. Ah well, perhaps someday. MF Webb fell in love wi...
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Hook's Waltz: Defending Mr. Smee
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History, art, and context discovered while researching the world of Peter Pan for "The Stowaway." Opinions on the above will certainly also be encountered here. Thursday, March 13, 2014. Defending Mr. Smee. I didn't realize when I began writing The Stowaway that I would become protective of characters I had formerly not been overly concerned about. Such as poor Mr. Smee, being seen by the world today as an ineffective bumbler when he was originally nothing of the sort. The first Smee, as acted by. Touche...
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Hook's Waltz: Keeping faith
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History, art, and context discovered while researching the world of Peter Pan for "The Stowaway." Opinions on the above will certainly also be encountered here. Wednesday, July 3, 2013. Our boys as most of the world now pictures them, courtesy of Disney Studios. ( Yes, that is commentary as well as an accurate credit.). Here we have an illustration by Flora White from 1914, after the initial publication of "Peter and Wendy" in 1911. Possibly the skeleton leaves that Barrie describes Peter as wearing,...
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Hook's Waltz: Peter and the popular media
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History, art, and context discovered while researching the world of Peter Pan for "The Stowaway." Opinions on the above will certainly also be encountered here. Thursday, December 19, 2013. Peter and the popular media. Now with bonus Siamese! Let's try that again. The book has eight illustrated plates from the film. Only one includes Captain Hook, though, you may as well know. In the middle of the book is a mystery:. Labels: 1924 Peter Pan silent film. December 20, 2013 at 6:57 AM. Captain James Hook: On...
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Hook's Waltz: Why Peter Pan still matters
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History, art, and context discovered while researching the world of Peter Pan for "The Stowaway." Opinions on the above will certainly also be encountered here. Sunday, January 31, 2016. Why Peter Pan still matters. So why is James Matthew Barrie's original Peter Pan. Gwynedd M. Hudson, 1931. 10087; Because Peter Pan. Who refuse to grow up have given us climate change and the garbage gyre. Flora White, 1913. Does not have to be seen as an anti-feminist icon. Scott Gustafson, 1991. 10087; Because families...
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Hook's Waltz: Not an acorn, but a button
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History, art, and context discovered while researching the world of Peter Pan for "The Stowaway." Opinions on the above will certainly also be encountered here. Wednesday, August 14, 2013. Not an acorn, but a button. This may well be the most controversial thing I ever write. But a purist can't let public opinion stop her from conveying the truth, can she? Did she pull a tiny drill out of her sewing kit and put a hole through the cap before the sound could wake her parents? Are acorn buttons. It's on...
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Hook's Waltz: Why they flew away
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History, art, and context discovered while researching the world of Peter Pan for "The Stowaway." Opinions on the above will certainly also be encountered here. Thursday, April 3, 2014. Why they flew away. Flora White, 1914. And if he forgets them so quickly," Wendy argued, "how can we expect that he will go on remembering us? Mabel Lucie Attwell, 1921. As time wore on did she think much about the beloved parents she had left behind her? Anne Graham Johnstone, 1988. Barrie was able to like and appreciate...
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Hook's Waltz: The adventure continues
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History, art, and context discovered while researching the world of Peter Pan for "The Stowaway." Opinions on the above will certainly also be encountered here. Friday, October 21, 2016. Three and a half years and 117 posts ago, this blog was born. It's now reached and passed 50,000 hits. This seems like a good time to look back at what I've found particularly interesting during my research for The Stowaway. By Mabel Lucie Atwell, 1921. By Anne Graham Johnstone, 1988. Why they flew away. James Matthew Ba...
