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...
Artist, writer and sheep breeder. Born Helen Beatrix Potter at 2 Bolton Gardens, South Kensington where she lived in the third floor nursery until she was in her thirties. She used her second name ...
Person, Art, Children, Animals, Literature, Seriously Famous
Killed aged 16. Evening Stardard reports an arrest of another 16 year old suspected of stabbing Sharif. This photo was taken from a framed image at the shrine.
The Evelina Children's Hospital was founded by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild and named for his wife, who had died aged 27 with her child in labour in 1866. It was planned by Dr Arthur Farre in a pu...
From the always useful Lost Hospitals of London: "The St Francis Hospital for Infants was founded in a small house in Hampstead {6 Denning Road} in 1903 by Helen Levis, {first} wife of the industri...
From Tony Jauncey: "Tonbridge club in Judd Street was founded after WW2 by a local vicar for the boys of King's Cross and surrounding area, to get them off the street and channel their energy into ...
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