This biography of J.M. Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan, claims that he somehow hypnotized the Davies boys and also Daphne du Maurier (who was related to them), thus creating a lifetime of misery, breakdowns and suicide for them. This is rather far-fetched, and I think that Dudgeon does not under...
2 Maeve Binchy in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl, edited by John Quinn (Methuen, 1986). 3 Every biography and newspaper gives 1940 as the year in which she was born, and her age was given as seventy-two when she died in July 2012. But her birth certificate states...
The group formed around 1905 in conscious revolt against the repressively male ethos of Victorian society and its hypocrisies. It was time now for courage to live one’s life in broad daylight with integrity and truth, a time to champion the freedom of the individual and denounce the unquestioned ...