The character first appeared in print in Barrie's 1902 novel 'The Little White Bird'. Barrie had huge success with the 'Peter Pan' play, first presented on stage in 1904. He turned it into a novel, 'Peter Pan and Wendy', in 1911 and then in 1929, he gave the valuable copyright to Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.
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Peter Pan
In 2005, after our photo, Tinkerbell was added to the statue, fluttering up t...
Sir James Matthew Barrie, Bart. OM, 1860 - 1937, novelist, dramatist and crea...
The plaque was laid on the 85th anniversary of the erection of the statue. W...
Moved from Spital Square in 1975 to the building in Bow Road. Spitalfields L...
Baptised in Horton 17 December 1833 daughter of William Wlllson Yeates. See t...
Grandson of Mary and John Procter, died aged 9 months. We don't actually know...
Opened by Sylvia Pankhurst as an answer to the dozens of tiny failing worksho...
Born on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent in 1808 to slave parents. Born wi...
