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 at the Duke of York's Theatre. He turned it into a novel, 'Peter Pan and Wendy' in 1911.
In 1929, Barrie gave the valuable copyright to Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital. The copyright has been extended and then, in the UK, granted "in perpetuity". It ran out in the US at the end of 2023. has more details.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Peter Pan
In 2005, after our photo, Tinkerbell was added to the statue, fluttering at P...
Sir James Matthew Barrie, Bart. OM, 1860 - 1937, novelist, dramatist and crea...
The first Peter Pan, Nina Boucicault, (always a woman) modelled for the statu...
Daughter of Lord Paul. She died from leukaemia and the Ambika Paul Foundation which supports charitable causes, was set up in her memory.
Character in a series of stories set in Greyfriars School, originally published in the boys weekly story magazine 'The Magnet'.
St Vincent’s Home for Destitute Boys was established in 1859 at what is now Shepherd’s Bush Road, Hammersmith. It was managed by some members of the St Vincent de Paul Society. Accepted Roman Catho...
Founded as The Hospital for Sick Children, the first hospital in England to provide in-patient beds specifically for children. Its first premises were at 49 Great Ormond Street a converted 17th cen...
Devoted many years of his life to working with young people at Coram's Fields. Died before Spring 1993.
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