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 authority of institutions, particularly that of the Church. It was a time for free love, too, which the group exercised with particular commitment and imagination. Although Barrie was to fall to the new post-war writers, led by D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot, most of whom were part of the Bloomsbury Group, he might claim to have been in some ways quite modern. The war had diluted his child-like adoration of the heroic and shaken his views about pacifism, for example, and he had never been religious in the conventional sense. But he was in one important way precisely what the group abhorred. He lived a double life, his public life was a model of morality, while, as with the Calvinists back home, it concealed what really consumed him.
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