![]() ![]() ![]() Then, from 1873 he spent his teenage years at Dumfries Academy before moving to Edinburgh to attend University at the age of 22. In 1868 he went to study for three years at Glasgow Academy before returning to Forfarshire where he attended the local school. The experience of death in childhood would also influence Barrie’s work, which is constantly pre-occupied with the themes of exile, immortality and the otherworldly.īarrie’s was an itinerant youth. The exploration of feminine identity was to become a marked feature of Barrie’s writing. The psychological significance of Barrie’s relationship with his mother and his need for maternal approval are apparent in the uncritical, almost doting biography of her life which he published in 1896. ![]() His mother never recovered from the loss of her son, whom Barrie perceived to be the favourite and whose place in his mother’s affections he strove to replace. The death of Barrie’s elder brother David, when Barrie was just six years old, was to have a marked effect of his life and work. ![]()
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